Patrizio Buanne

Patrizio Buanne
Patrizio Buanne in Thailand, 2005
Background information
Birth name	Patrizio Franco Buanne
Born	20 September 1978 (1978-09-20) Vienna, Austria
Genres	Adult contemporary Pop Oldies
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Singing, Guitar
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Concord Records-USA Warner Music-GSA
Website	www.patrizio.tv

Patrizio Franco Buanne (20 September 1978, Naples) is an Italian singer baritone, songwriter, producer. He was previously with Universal Music UK worldwide , but has later signed a record deal with Warner Music Germany for GSA and Concord Records USA worldwide.

Biography

Early life

Patrizio Buanne spent his childhood living and traveling from an early age between his family's hometown Naples, Italy, and Vienna, Austria, for his parents' restaurant business, developing a passion for languages. But another gift was emerging from an early age — a gift for singing and entertaining.

Career

Buanne began participating in talent contests at age 11. Several small musical productions and gigs with his self-formed rock and roll band and as a solo performer followed. When he was seventeen, a music industry manager proposed a performance at the occasion of the Papal visit in Wroclaw, Poland. The song, which was half in Italian, half in Polish, had been written for the opening mass, and with 85,000 people in attendance, the exposure led to his first local record dealAngelo di Dio (1997). When his father died of cancer that year and Buanne himself suffered a perforated ulcer, he said, “It was music and the goal to make my family proud that kept me alive and made me strong” Patrizio. At nineteen, Buanne graduated from school in Vienna and moved back to Italy. He attended university in Rome to study languages, while looking for opportunities in the entertainment industry. He was a guest and entertainer on Italian television shows such as “Momenti di Gloria”, “Domenica In” and “Libero”. This led to a contract with the production company that produced shows for the Italian Broadcasting Corporation, RAI and Mediaset. Buanne also invested his own money in tours and independently distributed CDs and DVD’sShake the Spaghetti/CD and DVD (2002).

In 2004 Buanne approached a producer with the idea of recording with an orchestra a collection of fun, romantic Italian songs that he had grown up listening to. He dedicated the album to his father. With a finished produced album under his belt he auditioned for several record companies and was signed by a record company in the UK for a worldwide release. His international debut album, “The Italian”, was finished in London at the Abbey Road Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Released in February 2005, it reached the top ten on the pop charts in the United Kingdom, where it went gold in a week. The album was also certified as platinum in South Africa and New Zealand, and reached triple platinum status in Australia. Following “The Italian” ’s international release, Buanne performed two tours in 2006, including a six-week tour of theatres and concert venues in Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe. His live concert DVD was broadcast on the American public television network PBS, which lead to his first U.S. tour playing 2,000-3,500 capacity venues.

In October 2006 Buanne was invited by Dr. A. Kenneth Ciongoli, the chairman of the National Italian American Foundation, to perform at their annual gala in Washington, D.C. where he met the President of the United States.

Buanne’s second album, “Forever Begins Tonight," reached #53 in the US. The album included an Italian version of "Angels"(entitled “Un angelo”) originally recorded by British singer Robbie Williams, which became Patrizio’s first radio hit in the United States.

Within two years, “The Italian” and “Forever Begins Tonight” had sold several million albums worldwide. Buanne decided that to take his career to the next level, he needed to move to the U.S. After living in the US for two years, he signed with successful Los Angeles-based manager Jim Morey.

Morey secured a new global recording contract Universal and began recording Patrizio’s 3rd album, under the helm of veteran music producers such as Humberto Gatica and Brian Rawlings. This self-titled CD “Patrizio”(2009) broke the artist own sales record and was followed by an Austral-Asia tour in May 2010, a successful promo tour in the US 2010 and reached in september 2011 #4 on national jazz bill board charts in the US. Ever since Buanne has become one of the most requested artists and is signed world wide to Concord records-Universal and to Warner Music Germany.

Buanne's "Italian songbook" and his european approach and interpretation of international and American standards has become next to own compositions his trademark-given title "the ambassador of Dolce Vita".

He has recorded in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Afrikaans, Japanese, and Chinese.

Discography

• Angelo di Dio (1997)
• Shake the Spaghetti (2002)
• The Italian (2005)
• Forever Begins Tonight (2007)
• Patrizio (2009)
• Dankie-Suid Afrika (2011)
• Wunderbar (2012)

References

• http://patriziobuanne.com/
• http://www.umrg.com/artist.aspx?aid=547
• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p700430
• http://www.ilikemusic.com/interviews/Patrizio_Buanne_interview_2007-3574
• http://www.patrizio.tv/news,a-new-era_5.htm

External links

• Official website
• Patrizio Buanne on Myspace
• Facebook
• Warner Music Germany