Matteo Becucci

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Appearance of the singer in 2009

Matteo Becucci (born August 4, 1970 in Livorno ) is an Italian pop singer who became famous for his victory in the second edition of the talent show X Factor .

Career

Becucci was already active in various music groups in his youth and in 2003 he released his first album Liberi di mente . At the age of 37, he successfully applied for the casting show X Factor , where he was supervised by juror Morgan . In the final, the singer was able to prevail against The Bastard Sons of Dioniso and win a record deal with Sony Music . Immediately after the show his first EP Impossibile was released . In October of that year, the album Cioccolato amaro e caffè followed , which like the EP contained a number of cover versions , but was only moderately successful.

In 2010, Becucci played the role of Judas Iscariot in an Italian production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar . In 2011 he released the self-titled album Matteo Becucci , which again received little attention, as did the following album Tutti quanti Mery (2014).

Discography

Albums and EPs

  • Liberi di mente (2003)
year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2009 Impossibile IT5 (9 weeks)
IT
EP
Cioccolato amaro e caffè IT27 (5 weeks)
IT
2011 Matteo Becucci IT57 (1 week)
IT
  • Tutti quanti Mery (2014)

Songs

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2009 Ancora, ancora, ancora
Impossibile 		IT32 (3 weeks)
IT
Cover version, original by Mina
The Power of Love
Impossibile 		IT9 (4 weeks)
IT
Cover version, original by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Be bellissima
impossibile 		IT33 (1 week)
IT
Cover version, original by Loredana Bertè
Un nuovo amico IT11 (1 week)
IT
Cover version, original by Riccardo Cocciante
Stairway to Heaven IT28 (1 week)
IT
Cover version, original by Led Zeppelin
Impossibile
Impossibile 		IT2 (3 weeks)
IT
Somebody to love IT22 (1 week)
IT
Cover version, original by Queen
Ti troverò
Cioccolato amaro e caffè 		IT26 (1 week)
IT
Cover of I Didn't Know ( Ph.D. )
  • Cioccolato amaro e caffè (2010)
  • Be unica (2010)
  • La cucina giapponese (2011)
  • Fare a meno di te (2011)
  • Era di maggio (2012)
  • Fammi dormire (2013)
  • L'onda del destino (feat. Capitan America ; 2014)
  • Mery (2014)
  • L'elefante (2015)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Biografia di Matteo Becucci. In: Rockol.it. Retrieved July 8, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Matteo Becucci's albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed July 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu , 2013, p. 69 .
X Factor (Italy) Winner

Aram Quartet  (2008) • Matteo Becucci  (2009) • Marco Mengoni  (2009) • Nathalie  (2010) • Francesca Michielin  (2012) • Chiara  (2012) • Michele Bravi  (2013) • Lorenzo Fragola  (2014) • Giò Sada  (2015 ) • Soul System  (2016) • Lorenzo Licitra  (2017) • Anastasio  (2018)

personal data
SURNAME Becucci, Matteo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno