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Stefano
Russo
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was born in
NAPLES (Italy) on 1st January 1961.
He
is interested in music as a guitarist, singer, arranger and composer
since the age of 15.
After a long period of self-learning in which he is interested in Country-West
Coast music and Bossa Nova
(that becomes his great passion), he begins to study classical
guitar.
Besides, he studies jazz harmony (from 1987 to 1989) with Pierre Cullaz
in Paris and
singing with Michael Aspinall in
Naples.
He takes his diploma at the Conservatoire of Benevento in 1991.
He's been writing since 1992 on GUITAR CLUB and TUTTO CHITARRA,
Italian specialized reviews in which he deals with Brazilian guitar music.
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After a period of intensive activity as a soloist or as a band leader in many clubs and theatres of Campania, in 1993 he meets, at Ischia, the great singer
and composer Ugo Calise who introduces him to Neapolitan songs, seeing
one potential artistic heir.
On 6th September 1994 , after
Calise death, , Stefano appears
at the commemorative concert
OMAGGIO
AD UGO CALISE
with Cicci Santucci, Romano Mussolini, Peppino Di
Capri,
Fausto Cigliano.
In 1995 he plays at "Innamorarsi A Napoli", "Galassia Gutenberg" and "Premio Utopia", both as a classical and as a
"folk" guitarist.
Everybody considers him as an adept at Bossa Nova, but he also studies other forms of Brazilian music, for instance the guitar style of BADEN POWELL who shows him gratefulness and regard.
On 28th June he is invited at Fregene (Rome) with some of the most
famous Italian jazz players as Carlo Loffredo, Romano Mussolini, Lino
Patruno, Cicci Santucci; the recording of the event
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Stefano Russo Trio with Cicci
Santucci
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Always in 1995 he collaborate with the famous Italian singer Fred Bongusto recording with him - two voices singed - a never published version of "Frida".
On 26th November, Il Golfo awards to him the "PREMIO
NAZIONALE UGO CALISE" as "best Neapolitan singer -guitarist of the 1995" (after
Lina Sastri, winner of the 1994).
He takes part - on 21st June 1996 - to the television broadcast R.a.i.
1 Mattina during the European event "Festa
della Musica" ; some images of his performance are
broadcasted on the national evening news.
The guidebook "ISCHIA. L' ISOLA PER
TUTTI. GUIDA PER I VIAGGIATORI CONTEMPORANEI" (Progetto Impresa, 1996)
includes an his short biography.
On 26th June 1997,
into the Grenoble French institute of Naples, he appears
at the presentation of NUN
È PECCATO - a four c.d. musical anthology of Ugo Calise (Ed. Electa Napoli) - in the presence of the mayor Antonio Bassolino and all the Neapolitan
press.
In 1998 he records his first c.d. NAPOLI
SLOW including the finest 50th years Neapolitan songs singed with Ugo Calise (in "virtual" presence), Fausto Cigliano, Peppino
Di Capri, Armando Romeo and Cicci
Santucci.
In 2001 he realizes his second
c.d. Ugo!, containing rare or unpublished compositions of
Calise, presented on 15th
February 2007 at
La Feltrinelli
in Naples.
In
2002 he records (with the Brazilian
percussionist Robertinho Bastos) Primeiro
Amor, a c.d.including
12 among the nicest and representative pieces of XXth century Brazilian guitar music.
On
November 2002, he takes part
to the Teatro
Nel Piatto show at the Sannazzaro theatre of Naples during which he sustains, alone by his
classical guitar, the complete performance of a modern dance troupe.
On 27th, 28th,
and 30th
January 2003, he plays at
the Sacro
E Pagano show
in the Filangieri theatre
of Naples
producing, with the singer
Marcello Colasurdo, a special version of
the traditional Neapolitan song La Palummella .
He gives a successful concert on 7th
August at Oratino - the native country of Ugo Calise - to pay homage to his master.
He takes part, as a guest, on 27th
September
in Ischia, at the literary award Premio Domenico Rea.
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In 2004 he records another two discs: Around Brazil (all based on
personal instrumental pieces, featuring
Cicci Santucci,
Marco Zurzolo
and Nando Trapani) and Napoli Saudade
(contains thirteen modern Neapolitan songs with new arrangements).
On 16th August 2006 Stefano participates in Oratino , with the Ciro Giorgio's company, to
Sera
d'Ammore,
a musical show dedicated to Ugo Calise.
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