Tormento

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Tormento (* 6. September 1975 in Reggio Calabria as Massimiliano Cellamaro ), also known as Yoshi Torenaga , is an Italian rapper . He became known as part of the hip hop group Sottotono in the 1990s .

Career

Tormento began his activities in 1994 as part of the initially four-part hip-hop formation Sottotono, in which he remained as a duo with DJ Fish from 1995. Until its dissolution in 2001, the group was able to achieve great success; she is considered a pioneer of Italian hip hop . In 2002 Tormento presented his first solo EP Una nuova visione del mondo under the pseudonym Yoshi Torenaga . This was followed in 2004 by the solo album Il mondo dell'illusione . Tormento's second solo album, the double album Il mio diario , was released in 2006 by Universal . The three previous singles, Il resto è inutile , Mi piaci and Solo tu also received a lot of attention .

In 2007 Tormento released his next album Alibi , now with Sony BMG . In the following years he worked with a variety of other rappers, in individual songs, in mixtapes or albums; including Lefty and DJ Kamo. Together with his brother Esa, he released music from 2008 under the project name Siamesi Brothers . After several featurings on various albums since 2004, Tormento deepened his collaboration with the Roman rapper Primo from 2012 , which resulted in the successful album El micro de oro in 2014 .

Tormento's fourth solo album, Dentro e fuori, was only released in 2015 . On Tiziano Ferro's album Il mestiere della vita , he was involved in the song My Steelo in 2016 . He then took an artistic break until he returned in 2019 with the single Acqua su Marte , in which J-Ax was involved. The song was used as the official song for the Women's World Cup on Sky Sport . He also appeared with Sottotono at the Sanremo Festival 2019 on one evening as the duet partner of Nino D'Angelo and Livio Cori .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2006 Il mio diario IT55 (2 weeks)
IT
Subside / Universal
2007 alibi IT79 (1 week)
IT
Sony BMG
2014 El micro de oro IT14 (5 weeks)
IT
with Primo
This Play Urban
2015 Dentro e fuori IT30 (2 weeks)
IT
Thaurus / Believe
  • Il mondo dell'illusione (Antibe, 2004)
  • Nessuna eccezione (No Escape) (Back Movement, 2012; with Lefty )

Singles (selection)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2005 The resto è inutile
Il mio diario 		IT25 (6 weeks)
IT
Mi piaci
Il mio diario 		IT27 (8 weeks)
IT
Solo tu
Il mio diario 		IT35 (6 weeks)
IT
2019 Acqua su Marte
 IT81 (3 weeks)
IT
feat. J-Ax

Web links

Commons : Tormento  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Mondiali calcio femminile, see Sky Sport la sigla è “Acqua su Marte” di Tormento. In: Sky.it. June 2, 2019, archived from the original on June 4, 2019 ; accessed on December 23, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b Biografia di Primo & Tormento. In: Rockol.it. Retrieved December 23, 2019 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Tormento Albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
personal data
SURNAME Tormento
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cellamaro, Massimiliano (maiden name); Torenaga, Yoshi (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 6th September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio Calabria