Matteo Brancaleoni
Matteo Brancaleoni is an Italian contemporary pop/jazz singer, actor and journalist.
Biography
Appreciated by Michael Bublé with whom he duetted live in Rome in 2007 during Bublè’s concert, Matteo Brancaleoni is an Italian jazz singer and interpreter of the Great American Songbook. He was voted among the ten best jazz singers by Italian readers of Jazzit magazine. He has collaborated Franco Cerri, Renato Sellani, Gianni Basso, and Fabrizio Bosso. The magazine Jazz Hot compared him to his idol, Frank Sinatra. In 2008 he wasa named Best New Talent at the Elba Jazz Festival. His debut album Just Smile and his second album Live in Studio were well received by audiences and critics nationally and internationally. Live in studio was for two weeks the best selling jazz album on iTunes and for six months his live performances were listed in the live recommended section by the Apple Store.New Life was conceived from an encounter with Roman writer and arranger Nerio Poggi, a writing partner with Mario Biondi in his last two albums. A journalist, member of IJJA, the International Federation of Journalists, he wrote for Jazz Magazine and ''Millionaire.''
Discography
;Studio albumsJust Smile – Live in studio – New Life –;Independent albumsMerry Merry Christmas –
;Live albumsLive! with Gianpaolo Petrini Big Band –
;Compilation
- 2006 Un Sanremese a Londra –
- 2007 Il Meglio di Zazzarazzaz –
- 2007 Jazz Magazine –
- 2024 Canzoni Italiane Allegre –
- 2024 Signorina –
- 2007 Time After Time, Still In My Heart, –
- 2007 For All We Know, Moonlight Becomes You, –
- 2009 Pure Imagination, Enter Eyes, –