Simone Giuliani
Encyclopedia
Simone Giuliani is an Italian musician
, composer
, arranger
and record producer
based in Manhattan, New York. He is also a keyboard player and a pianist
.
, Italy
. In the early 90s he worked with the Italian punk-rock band Diaframma
as a keyboard player, touring and recording four albums with them. A few years later he moved to the United States
where he launched the independent record label Emunity Records and the electronic music acts Racoon and Lazybatusu.
from Cibo Matto
on the soundtrack for the movie Color Me Love and has worked with Grammy Award
-winning producer Robert Sadin (Sting, Herbie Hancock
) and avant-garde cellist Charles Curtis
. Giuliani composed music for the Golden Globe-nominated movie A Raisin In The Sun
featuring P. Diddy, Phylicia Rashad
and John Stamos
with Zé Luis Oliveira, Bebel Gilberto
's arranger.
He has worked on remixes for Beyoncé, Maxwell
and Sia Furler
. Simone Giuliani composed the music theme for CBS News
on Logo
and original music for the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
and the film Beyond Ipanema
produced by Béco Dranoff
, featuring David Byrne
, Caetano Veloso
and M.I.A.. His music is featured in the 2011 Volkswagen
US commercial.
He collaborated with producer Jason Olaine on rare live recordings of Miles Davis
, Sarah Vaughan
, Dizzy Gillespie
, Thelonious Monk
, Louis Armstrong
released by Concord Music Group
and Monterey Jazz Festival Records.
Simone Giuliani is a contributing writer of the book The Spiritual Significance Of Music published by Xtreme Music in May 2011.
Giuliani is a founding member of Sambismo, a music project with Béco Dranoff
and Zé Luis Oliveira.
Sarah Vaughan Live at The 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records/Concord)
Louis Armstrong Live at The 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records/Concord)
Dave Brubeck '50 Years of Dave Brubeck Live at The Monterey Jazz Festival' (MJF Records/Concord)
Smoove 'As If' remix (Acid Jazz Records)
Natalie Williams 'The Way We Like It' remix (Eastide Records)
Echocell 'Vessel' remix (Fiberline)
Lazybatusu 'Otherview' (Emunity Records)
Lazybatusu '00.03' (Emunity Records)
The Best of MTV Lounge (Sony International)
Glucklich V (Compost Records)
Racoon 'Universal Vibes' (Rykodisc)
Café del Mar Vol. 9 (CDM)
Diaframma 'Sesso e Violenza' (Flying Records)
His great grandmother Armida Ceccuzzi was one of the first professional female performers in Europe
, playing mandolin
and singing in a traveling circus
in the 1880s.
He learned how to read and write music
in a barber shop in Molino Del Piano, a small village in Tuscany
at age 9.
He studied at Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence
and at The Juilliard School in New York
with Conrad Cummings
and Daniel Ott.
Musician
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, composer
Composer
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, arranger
Arranger
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and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
based in Manhattan, New York. He is also a keyboard player and a pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
.
Background
Simone Giuliani was born in FlorenceFlorence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Italy
Italy
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. In the early 90s he worked with the Italian punk-rock band Diaframma
Diaframma
Diaframma is an Italian band, one of the most famous darkwave, gothic Italian acts to come out of Florence during the early 80s along with Litfiba...
as a keyboard player, touring and recording four albums with them. A few years later he moved to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
where he launched the independent record label Emunity Records and the electronic music acts Racoon and Lazybatusu.
Work
Giuliani collaborated with Miho HatoriMiho Hatori
is a singer, songwriter, and musician. She is primarily known as the vocalist of the New York City group Cibo Matto, and the first person to provide the voice of Gorillaz member Noodle.-Biography:...
from Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto are a New York City-based band formed by two Japanese women, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori, in 1994...
on the soundtrack for the movie Color Me Love and has worked with Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning producer Robert Sadin (Sting, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
) and avant-garde cellist Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (musician)
Cellist Charles Curtis is an internationally renowned performer and composer of a wide variety of music, with particular emphasis on the avant-garde...
. Giuliani composed music for the Golden Globe-nominated movie A Raisin In The Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
featuring P. Diddy, Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashād is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show....
and John Stamos
John Stamos
John Phillip Stamos is an American actor, singer and musician best known for his work in television, especially in his starring role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House. Since the cancellation of that show in 1995, Stamos has appeared in numerous television films and series. From 2006...
with Zé Luis Oliveira, Bebel Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque...
's arranger.
He has worked on remixes for Beyoncé, Maxwell
Maxwell
-People:* Maxwell , Grammy winning R&B/neo-soul singer* Maxwell Cabelino Andrade , a Brazilian footballer who plays for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona...
and Sia Furler
Sia Furler
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler or simply Sia, is an Australian pop, downtempo, and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000, her single, "Taken for Granted" was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album, Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard 200...
. Simone Giuliani composed the music theme for CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
on Logo
Logo
A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...
and original music for the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
and the film Beyond Ipanema
Beyond Ipanema
Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music is a 2009 documentary film about the influence of Brazilian music outside of the country, especially the USA...
produced by Béco Dranoff
Béco Dranoff (music producer)
Béco Dranoff is the Brazilian music and film producer and founder of the Ziriguiboom music label.-Early career:...
, featuring David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
, Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
and M.I.A.. His music is featured in the 2011 Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
US commercial.
He collaborated with producer Jason Olaine on rare live recordings of Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
, Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
, Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
, Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
released by Concord Music Group
Concord Music Group
Concord Music Group is a record company owned by Village Roadshow formed in 2004 by the merger of Concord Records and Fantasy Records. In 2005, the company acquired the classics and jazz label Telarc International. On December 18, 2006, Concord announced the re-launch of the soul label Stax;...
and Monterey Jazz Festival Records.
Simone Giuliani is a contributing writer of the book The Spiritual Significance Of Music published by Xtreme Music in May 2011.
Giuliani is a founding member of Sambismo, a music project with Béco Dranoff
Béco Dranoff (music producer)
Béco Dranoff is the Brazilian music and film producer and founder of the Ziriguiboom music label.-Early career:...
and Zé Luis Oliveira.
Selected Discography
Miles Davis Quintet Live at The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records/Concord)Sarah Vaughan Live at The 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records/Concord)
Louis Armstrong Live at The 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF Records/Concord)
Dave Brubeck '50 Years of Dave Brubeck Live at The Monterey Jazz Festival' (MJF Records/Concord)
Smoove 'As If' remix (Acid Jazz Records)
Natalie Williams 'The Way We Like It' remix (Eastide Records)
Echocell 'Vessel' remix (Fiberline)
Lazybatusu 'Otherview' (Emunity Records)
Lazybatusu '00.03' (Emunity Records)
The Best of MTV Lounge (Sony International)
Glucklich V (Compost Records)
Racoon 'Universal Vibes' (Rykodisc)
Café del Mar Vol. 9 (CDM)
Diaframma 'Sesso e Violenza' (Flying Records)
Personal
He is also known and sometimes credited as 4MuLA.His great grandmother Armida Ceccuzzi was one of the first professional female performers in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, playing mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
and singing in a traveling circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
in the 1880s.
He learned how to read and write music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
in a barber shop in Molino Del Piano, a small village in Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
at age 9.
He studied at Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
and at The Juilliard School in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
with Conrad Cummings
Conrad Cummings
Conrad Cummings is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His compositions include works for orchestra, as well as operatic and chamber works. Many of his works are composed in a minimalist style reminiscent of that of Philip Glass.Cummings was born in San Francisco, California,...
and Daniel Ott.