Biography of Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti was born on July 11, 1983 in New York to parents of Italian descent (a Neapolitan grandfather and a grandmother in Piacenza). A child prodigy, he began playing on a toy piano at the age of three, and the next year already takes music lessons. At nine years old made up his first songs during this period, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music, coming into contact with jazz thanks to teachers like James Williams and David Finck. At fifteen he began to perform as a performer at the Knickerbocker Jazz Club ", alternating parts played and Sung parts, while shortly after being cast in" Our Sinatra "Broadway tribute to Frank Sinatra. After attending in the Bronx, Riverdale, Horace Mann School, he enrolled at Columbia College, during which time he performed at several locations in Manhattan. At seventeen he even the opportunity to perform at the White House.
In the summer of 1999 Peter is spotted by Harry Connick jr, who calls him along on tour: always in that period, he was noticed by legendary producer Phil Ramone, during a performance at "Feintein's Regensy Hotel" of the Big Apple, which has a contract with the record company "Concord Records". The Italian-American artist, so has the opportunity to record his first album, called "Peter Cincotti," which includes new interpretations of classic jazz as "Comes love" and "how to live your life with me". There are, however, compositions he wrote together with his mom Cynthia, author of the lyrics of "Are you the one?", "changed the rules" and "Lovers, secrets, lies". Cervantes, in short, after attending the Montreux Jazz Festival, where he played the song "A night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie, arrives at the top of the Billaboard Traditional Jazz Chart in 2002: only nineteen years old, is the youngest artist to succeed as a solo artist. 21 released the album "On the moon", an obvious jazz imprint from which are not far off pop notes: in addition to new songs, there are re-interpretations of songs such as "Some kind of wonderful" and "I love Paris", in addition to the instrumental "Cherokee" in which the American artist sheds light on their skills on the piano.
In the same year, he released "My favourite time of year," Christmas disc with two tracks taken from the movie "sound of music". After having starred opposite Kevin Spacey in "Beyond the sea" and being featured in a cameo in "Spiderman 2", Peter returns to music with "East of angel town", a disc that includes only unpublished and which is produced by David Foster. Many songs on the album are written with lyricist John Bettis, included the track that it pops up: "Angel town", dedicated to Los Angeles and illusions that it produces. It is a sophisticated and eclectic, with sounds ranging from jazz to rock, from blues to pop. The song "December boys" is chosen as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, released in the United States in 2007. Winner in 2008 of the "Silver Hedgehog" on the occasion of the 22nd Edition of "Get music", an exhibition organized by promoter Roger Palmer, in 2011 Peter Cincotti-known in our Country especially for the song "Goodbye Philadelphia", from the album "East of angel town"-record together with Simona Molinari the single "looking for you", which gets a radio success in Italy. In 2012 will affect the album "Metropolis", and always with the Molinari offers his candidacy at the Sanremo Festival the following year. On 13 December comes the announcement: Cervantes and Molinari will take part in Sanremo by Fabio Fazio and Mauro Pagani, with the songs "happiness" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide."
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