Giovanni Costello

Giovanni Costello

Giovanni Costello (born Giovanni Pazzaglia on May 2, 1966 in Umbertide , Italy ) is an Italian singer, pianist and composer, who became known through the television program The Voice of Germany .

Giovanni Costello

biography

Giovanni Costello was born in Perugia (Umbria / Italy). He studied music at the Conservatory of Perugia, graduated with a diploma and then devoted himself to composition teaching in Milan. Giovanni Costello gave a. a. Concerts with the symphonic orchestra of the Conservatory in Perugia and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. He has appeared at numerous festivals, including the Music Festival of the Music Nations for Chamber Music in Italy and the Festival of the Wiener Musikverein . He also played for example at the Sanremo Festival with Mino Reitano and Paolo Mengoli, the Giro Festival and at Umbria Jazz .

In the first season of the successful talent show The Voice of Germany , Giovanni Costello made it to Xavier Naidoo's team . Together with Rüdiger Skokzowsky he interpreted the song "What a Wonderful World".

Under the direction of Xavier Naidoo, the band project Sing um dein Leben (SUDL for short) was born, in which 14 of the 17 singers of the "Xavier" team came together to record the album of the same name. Giovanni Costello and Rüdiger Skokzowsky sang the German-Italian duet “ You are there for me” .

Another album followed by the band called "Es geht weiter", on which the singer was represented with the song "Sexy, Fast and Furious". As a permanent member of the band SUDL, Costello performed in the summer of 2013 at various concerts of the Xavier Naidoo tour Bei mein Seele in the opening act .

Giovanni Costello has been giving concerts with the SWR Big Band since autumn 2013. So they played u. a. 2013 at the Baden-Württemberg State Jazz Festival in Ehingen, 2014 on the New Year's Tour together with Götz Alsmann, 2014 at the Opera Festival in Heidenheim, in the same year at a SWR TV live broadcast from Neuwied, 2015 at the New Year's concert in Mainz - also with Live broadcast; In 2016 they gave the New Year's Concert in Baden-Baden and the following year they were jointly responsible for the background music for the press ball in Berlin.

Discography

• "Io senza te" album (2005)
• "True Italian Story" Album EP (2011)
• "Il Gioco" album (2014)
• "Splendido" album (2017)

With the music project Sing for your life :

• Sing For Your Life (Album) (2012)
• You're There For Me (Single) (2012)
• It Goes On ... (Album) (2013)

Web links

• official homepage
• "What a wonderful world" by The voice of Germany Pro7 (Video) 2011
• Giovanni Costello Trio in Heidenheim, engine shed 2016
• Giovanni Costello on "Sing for Your Life"
• Song "You are there for me" Giovanni Costello and Rüdiger Skokzowsky on the show Xavier & Friends Pro7 (video) 2012

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