| About Giuditta Scorcelletti | Giuditta Scorcelletti is a singer. She was born in Pistoia, Tuscany in 1976 and began to play the piano at the age of 8. She started to sing and play guitar at the age of 18 and during her university studies in Antropolgy she discovered the music and tradition of her land and became a folk singer. She has never studied singing and is self-taught in guitar. After graduating in 2000 she frequented the Drama Academy obtaining a diploma in stage acting in 2003. She continued to sing folk music giving concerts in Italy, Germany, Austria and the USA. In 2004 she produced by herself an album called "Canti Toscani" which included 10 tuscan folk songs for guitar and voice and started to sell the cd whilst singing on the road. This work was bought by the journalist Chris Nickson, who wrote a very positive review in the magazine "Sing Out" in winter 2005. Since 2009 she has collaborated with the guitarist Alessandro Bongi and together with the Italian label RadiciMusic they co-produced the albums "Canta la Cruia" (2010) and "Coscine di pollo" (2011), both about tuscan folk songs and including some of Guiditta's original songs. In 2012 she produced the musical show "Astronave Terra" dedicated to children, and the accompanying soundtrack cd composed of her original music and the lyrics of Italian writer Gianni Rodari . She has continued to perform in theatre and on the streets and is now considered one of the most significant folk singers in Italy. In June 2013 she met the composer Michael Hoppé while singing in San Gimignano... They produced together the album "Nightingale", that has been in the folk category at Grammys 2015. The album is available on Spotify. Web-site: www.giudittamusic.com "Sing Out!" The Folk Song Magazine, Chris Nickson, winter 2005 Scorcelletti studied anthropology at university in Florence. Her speciality is the traditional song in Italy, most particularity Tuscany. Accompaning herself on guitar, she has a beautiful sense of dynamic and arrangiament in the music, giving it a light and shade that brings the pieces out of history and into the modern era. While hardly a virtuoso of the fretbroad, she uses her skills intelligently to bring color and texture to the sound. But there's not doubt that the center of the disc is her voice. Again, it's not something that stop you in your tracks, but, combined with immagination, what emerges is something that's greater than the sum of its parts. You might not understand what she's singing about (there's not booklet in the self-released CD), but the emotion communicates. Scorcelletti is doing this from a sense of mission, rather than as a career move. She cares deeply about the music, its past, and its future, and it show in the care with which she approaches the material, and the passion she brings to her performances, making this labor of love far more than an accademic exercise. |
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