Luisa Celentano

Luisa Celentano

Luisa Celentano (born March 11, 1965 in Sarno , Campania , Italy ) is a southern Italian jazz singer, world musician , vocal teacher , composer , musical artist , designer , illustrator and author .

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Her father Giuseppe Celentano, who had a tenor voice and enjoyed singing operas, came from an old nobility on the Amalfi coast and married her mother Concetta Ruggiero, who enjoyed singing traditional Neapolitan songs with her natural soprano. Adriano Celentano is Luisa's uncle.

Due to her parents' emigration to Germany, Celentano first grew up in Baden-Württemberg and after graduating from high school and doing an internship in graphic design, went to Italy to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia zu Nand-Orfei.

Her love of Ella Fitzgerald's singing and the special timbre of her singing voice brought her to music and to Austria, where she studied jazz and popular singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz , among others. a. with Ines Reiger , Mark Murphy , Sheila Jordan , Michelle Hendricks , Jay Clayton and Andy Bey . Later she also studied vocal pedagogy (IGP). She wrote her master's thesis on vocal timbres and her diploma thesis on physio-psychological aspects in voice training . Your degrees are Mag.art. and BA .

She worked in various formations, including a. with pianist Peter Polzer, tenor saxophonist Michael Erian, guitarist Primus Sitter and drummer Gilberto Gil in Klagenfurt. In 1990 she won the Solid Start competition in Klagenfurt and her first jazz album Weaver of dreams was created in the Pink Noise studio with musicians from Graz: Klemens Pliem (saxophone), Ralf Kelter (guitar), Sava Medan (bass), Wolfram Derschmidt (bass) , Vito Lescak (drums) and Reinhold Kogler (guitar).

This was followed by further CD productions, radio and TV appearances at home and abroad (e.g. on ORF-TV on Willkommen Österreich , Ö1, Radio Steiermark, Radio Helsinki), she sang a. a. at festivals in Kathmandu , in Thessaloniki with the bassist Lakis Tzimkas, in Plovdiv Bulgaria, at the Festival Lent in Slovenia or at Jazz in Heilbronn and with the No sisters at the International Jazzsummit II in Belgrade with Melanie Bong and Jelena Jojovic.

She taught u. a. at the Schubert Conservatory and the Vienna Conservatory in Vienna, was a musical performer a. a. at the Graz Opera at the Musical Hair or at Some Like It Hot at the Graz Schauspielhaus and later wrote his own children's musical for the Children's Museum Frida and Fred in Graz. In 1999 she won the jazz category at the music award composition competition in Vienna together with the Munich pianist Peter Wegele.

In 2009 her second solo album storie was created with the pianist Werner Radzik, the bassist Thorsten Zimmermann, the drummer Wolfgang Tozzi, the percussionist Ewald Gaulhofer and the guitarist Thomas Mauerhofer. She was also a guest in bands and formations such as the stringle swingers , Eletric Groove , shitake with Reinhard Winkler, the Josel junior trio , Faton M. Macula , Fritz Kres Quartet or the Big Band Süd under the direction by Sigi Feigl.

On a private occasion she moved to the vicinity of Venice for a few years and worked there a. a. with Alessandro Pasqual and Paolo Vianello.

Parallel to the music, she regularly exhibited her work (various painting techniques, etchings), including a. in the Hirt Gallery in Scheifling and the Dida Gallery in Graz or the Small Gallery in Vienna, designed stage sets for theaters, designed CD covers, logos and posters, etc. a. for the Amridam group , the State Conservatory in Klagenfurt, Mark Murphy or for the Kammerlichtspiele jazz club .

In 2008 she was an award winner at the Cadaque Mini Print-International in Madrid . In 2018 she won first prize in a designer competition at ADA in Styria for her invention " il mobile mobile" , a connector system made of larch wood . In 2019, her book arte e cucina was published with traditional southern Italian recipes.

Celentano is fluent in German, Italian and English and has knowledge of French, Latin and ancient Greek. Her own compositions with texts in English, Italian and the Neapolitan dialect move stylistically between jazz , Latin , funk and soul .

Discographic references, literature

• Weaver of dreams , solo album 1992, West and East Music, LC 6226, 220003-1
• Why should the audiance be exited , stringle swingers, BR 2027-2
• Different Faces , Lakis Tsimkas, 2004, AN records, Krustophono -04
• Venice Jazz Project , solo album 2005, GN -01
• Luisa Celentano Band , ORF Radio Steiermark, live recording, archive 2006
• storie , solo album 2009, office4music 9120024953418
• Ladies of Jazz ORF Radio Steiermark, live recording Stockwerkjazz 2010
• arte e cucina , book, publisher united pc (July 8, 2019), paperback: 82 pages, ISBN 3710342910

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• PM Ebbs: ... Luisa Celentano. The story. In: the new Grazer. 1994, pp. 28-29 ( [1] ).
• Karin Petutschnig / Freie Akademie Feldkirchen: Jazz with Luisa Celentano. In: Kulturwarndienst. No. 5, 1994, pp. 2-3 ( [2] ).
• Judith Schwentner: portrait. Luisa Celentano. In: Megaphone. 8th year, No. 78, 2002, p. 5 ( [3] ).
• PM Ebbs: ... Luisa Celentano. The story. In: the new Grazer. 1994, pp. 28-29 ( [4] ).
• Christian Less: Rauchkuchl. Lock name. In: Small newspaper. April 23, No. X, 1995, p. 19 ( [5] ).
• Otmar Klammer: Sirens. Beguiling voices : Luisa Celentano In: Steirer MONTH . No. 3, 2001, p. 46 ( [6] ).
• Rüdiger Hofmann: Well-known all-round artist in Großklein. In: Klapotetz. Volume 30, No. 1, 2011, p. 20 ( [7] ).
• Peter Siegmund: Murnockerln. Celentano suffering. In: Small newspaper. No. 17, 1993, p. 13 ( [8] ).
• Escherich: Music, Zsizsik and Celentano. In: Obersteirer. July 31, 1993, pp. 10-11 ( [9] ).
• Karlheinz Dicht: Graz: The singer Luisa Celentano is "multi-track" on the way. Between oil paint and timbre. In: Kronenzeitung. 1994 ( [10] ).
• Graz week: Luisa with the magic voice. In: NIX HOW TO. 2003, p. 11 ( [11] ).