SHADOWS
GIOVANNI MARRADI/INSTRUMENTAL
SONGWRITER: GIOVANNI MARRADI
COUNTRY: ITALIANXU. S. A.
ALBUM: LOVER’S RENDEZVOUS
LABEL: DAMIAN MUSIC
GENRE: EASY LISTENING
YEAR: 1999
Giovanni Marradi is an American composer,
pianist, arranger and TV presenter who was born in 1952 in Italy. is a composer,
pianist, arranger and
television presenter. He is the son of Italian trumpeter and conductor Alfredo Marradi; his
great-grandfather, also named Giovanni Marradi,
was a poet and composer.
Giovanni
began playing piano at age five, and three years later was sent to study
composition and technique with Michael Cheskinov at the Russian Conservatory.
As a young adult, he played throughout Europe and the Middle East, but his
dream was to come to the U.S. to pursue his music career. After arriving in
California as an Italian immigrant, Giovanni played small concerts in Southern
California and was asked to perform at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Giovanni
became one of the most successful expressionist pianists of our time, as well
as a composer, arranger, recording artist, inventor and illustrator. Among his
accomplishments, he sold 120,000 CDs in one two-hour segment on the QVC
shopping channel. Another record that still stands as one of his outstanding
achievements in the music industry is selling over four million CDs during his
appearances on QVC and the Home Shopping Network.
Giovanni produced, directed and hosted Giovanni's
World of Music, a 28-episode television music series broadcast on stations
around the world and distributed by Warner Brothers Television. Both the series and Giovanni
himself have been nominated for and received several awards from the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Telly Awards, EMA and the New York
Festivals. His concert specials on PBS are still being aired. Giovanni has
recorded over 130 CDs and two DVDs from his televised specials.
In
1995, he formed his own label, NewCastle Records. He
released over 60 titles with NewCastle before signing with Atlantic Records in
1998, making his label debut, Destiny.
Giovanni's álbum Because I Love You won Best
New Age CD of the year in Spain for 2010. In November 2015, he performed a sold-out concert in
Beijing, China at the Great Hall of the People to rave reviews. Giovanni's
concert at the Great Hall drew much attention and he recently returned to China
for a twenty city concert tour while giving Master Classes for the children in
every city on the tour during Feb/March of 2019.
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