This year Natural Sound is pulling all the strings to bring highly exotic, musically captivating products and even the live performance. Performance? Yes, they’re inviting Andrea Celeste and Roberto Vigo from Analogy Records at the Warsaw’s High-End Audio Show. Celeste will perform (live) at least twice a day with the backing tracks on reels operated by Roberto. This will be a special occasion and more then worthy of listening. If you’re heading to the Poland show, do not miss this unique opportunity.
Here is a bit more Andrea Celeste’s info, photos and muscial background:
Mezmerizing, powerful, stylish “ is how the voice of this young singer-songwriter has been described by critics.
Born in 1986, Andrea Celeste is a Tuscan singer and songwriter. When she was eleven, she began studying classical singing and piano with Maestro Vittorio Scali. At the same time she developed a passion for Afro-American music, especially for Gospel and Jazz, and began to sing at several recording studios all over the Northern Italy, where she had the chance to experiment with different musical genres and develop her versatility.
Andrea Celeste won both the public’s, and the critics’ heart with her albums “My Reflection” (Zerodieci/Shake Records 2008), Enter Eyes (Zerodieci/Incipit 2009) and “Something Amazing” (Zerodieci 2012), including precious original songs, composed by her, as well as unique renditions and arrangements of famous international hits, mixing pop, soul and jazz.
On December 16th, 2013 she released her first album in Italian, “Se stasera sono qui” (If I Am Here Tonight – Zerodieci 2013), an awsome collection of songs written by songrwrites from Genoa, such as Bindi, Tenco, Lauzi, De Andrè, Fossati, De Scalzi, Mannerini, and rendered by Andrea Celeste with great class and intensity, thus proving her outstanding versatility and interpretative talent. This album features also Zibba and Vittorio De Scalzi (New Trolls). In summer 2014, Andrea Celeste was also nominated for the “Targa Tenco” prize as “best performer”.
Thanks to her outstanding talent, since the beginning of her career she has performed in many concerts, taking part to many renowned European festivals and events, such as Milano Gospel Festival, Monte Carlo Jazz Festival (Monaco), Dima Jazz Festival (Constantine, Algeria), Ischia Jazz, and performing at Blue Note in Milan, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola (New York, USA), Wabe (Berlin), and at the opening ceremony of Versace Home in Kiev (Ucraina), Milano Gospel Festival, Festival del Cinema di Roma, Lovere Jazz, Valbadia Jazz Festival. She shared the stage with famous artists such as Dado Moroni, Vittorio De Scalzi, Mario Biondi, Joe Locke, Cheryl Porter, Andrea Pozza, Mauro Grossi, Ares Tavolazzi, Riccardo Fioravanti, Paolo Zampini, Roberto Gatto, Rosario Bonaccorso.
Andrea Celeste’s talent has been recognized on several occasions: she was awarded the “ Via Del Campo 2012” prize by Patrizia Tenco and the Gianni Tassio Association, and invited by the Minister Giorgia Meloni to the Festival TNT. She was also awarded by the Chief of the Staff to the Italian Army at Italian Army 152nd Anniversary celebrations.
Andrea Celeste has recently been to Provence to record some songs of her new upcoming album (releasing at the end of 2015) with the legendary sound engineer Al Schmitt.
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