Urban Strangers

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Urban Strangers
Appearance at the Wind Music Awards 2016
Appearance at the Wind Music Awards 2016
General information
origin Somma Vesuviana
Genre (s) Electro pop
founding 2012
Founding members
Gennaro "Genn" Raia
Vocals, guitar, e-drums
 Alessio "Alex" Iodice
Urban Strangers live

Urban Strangers is an Italian band from Somma Vesuviana , who became famous in 2015 for their participation in the talent show X Factor . It essentially consists of Gennaro "Genn" Raia (born February 12, 1995 in Pollena Trocchia ) and Alessio "Alex" Iodice (born September 18, 1995 in Massa di Somma ).

Band history

Raia and Iodice, both from the Naples area , formed the band Urban Strangers in 2012 and after a few live appearances began to work on their own music in the local studio Casa Lavica . In 2015 they released their first EP after the single Empty Bed and applied for the casting show X Factor , where they competed in the team of juror Fedez . They made it to the final and were considered favorites, but just lost to Giosada . Her single Runaway subsequently reached the top of the charts ; an EP of the same name was also released, which contained the number one hit, covers and songs from the first EP presented during the course of X Factor . In 2016, the duo's producers joined the band as live musicians.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2015 Urban Strangers IT16 (1 week)
IT
EP
Runaway IT6th
gold
gold

(13 weeks)IT
EP
sales: + 25,000
2018 US IT31 (1 week)
IT

Singles

  • Empty Bed (2015)
year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2015 Last Part
Runaway 		IT57 (2 weeks)
IT
Runaway
Runaway 		IT1
platinum
platinum

(10 weeks)IT
Sales: + 50,000
Cupid's Chokehold
Runaway 		IT34 (3 weeks)
IT
Cover version, original by Gym Class Heroes
Oceans
Runaway 		IT25 (2 weeks)
IT
Cover version, original by Jay-Z
Rape Me
Runaway 		IT66 (1 week)
IT
Cover version, original by Nirvana
  • Bones (2016)

Web links

Commons : Urban Strangers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Urban Strangers. In: X Factor. Sky , August 1, 2015, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ^ Urban Strangers. Casa Lavica Records, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Francesca Sironi: Urban Strangers: il Fattore X sotto il vulcano. In: d.repubblica.it . Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso , February 22, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  4. ^ Gianmarco Regaldi: Urban Strangers: La storia del duo alla conquista di web e classifica dopo l'audizione a X-Factor (video). In: aLLMusicitalia. Edizioni Molecola di Longo Massimiliano, September 13, 2015, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  5. ^ Giovanni Ferrari: Urban Strangers: “Torniamo all'elettronica”. In: Panorama.it . Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , January 21, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  6. ^ Raffaella Serini: Urban Strangers: "La gioia di essere" loser "". In: VanityFair.it . Condé Nast Verlag , December 19, 2015, accessed on May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  7. ^ Gli Urban Strangers live a Sorrisi with "Team" and "Last part". In: Sorrisi.com . Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, January 21, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  8. ^ Ilaria Chiavacci: Gli Urban Strangers "si fanno in quattro". In: VanityFair.it. Condé Nast, April 4, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  9. ↑ Urban Strangers albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed May 17, 2016 .
  10. ↑ a b Urban Strangers in the award archive. FIMI , accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).
  11. ^ Archivio classifiche Top Digital. FIMI, accessed May 17, 2016 (Italian).