Andrea Figallo is an Italian vocal coach, vocalist and producer.
Career
Figallo has been involved for many years in the vocal
a cappella
Music performed a cappella ( , , ; ), less commonly spelled acapella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Rena ...
music scene, teaching voice, coaching choirs, conducting, arranging, adjudicating vocal contests and holding workshops on many subjects: singing bass, vocal percussion, vocal group singing and ''all things vocal''.
He a member of the
Wise Guys (band)
The Wise Guys were a German a cappella band that was formed in 1990 in Cologne, Germany and split in 2017.
History of the group
Apart from Nils Olfert and Björn Sterzenbach, the members all attended the Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium in Cologn ...
and the
Flying Pickets. He's also founder of
The Ghost Files, a vocal studio project dedicated to original vocal music recordings. He is a freelance conductor working all over Europe. From June 2012 to June 2013 he was the musical director of the choir
don camillo chor, Munich.
His original choral music is published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH and Helbling GmbH.
On 31 October 2012 he was introduced as the new bass singer of the German a capella band
Wise Guys and successor of the former bass singer
Ferenc Husta. Since the beginning of December 2012 he has been living in Cologne.
In February 2016, the Wise Guys made two important announcements: 1) the decision to disband in July 2017, 2) Andrea would leave the band two months later.
Figallo travels around the world teaching music, coaching choirs, producing recordings and adjudicating choral competitions.
Discography
* ''Jazz'n Jam, Uno'', Tape, 1996, singer, arranger
* ''Jazz'n Jam, Libera La Fantasia'', CD, 1998, producer, singer, arranger
* ''Flying Pickets, Live in Hamburg'', CD, 2001, producer, singer, arranger
* ''Flying Pickets, Vocal Zone'' EP, 2002, singer
* ''Flying Pickets, Everyday'', CD, 2004, album producer, singer, arranger, recording engineer
* ''The Ghost Files, New Folder'', CD, 2008, album producer, composer, singer, arranger, recording engineer
* ''Flying Pickets, Big Mouth'', CD, 2008, producer, singer, arranger, recording engineer
* ''Esmeralda Grao, Sottovoce'', CD, 2009, album producer, recording engineer, singer
* ''Bobby McFerrin, VOCAbuLarieS'', CD, 2010, singer (3 Grammy Nominations)
* ''Flying Pickets, Only Yule'', CD, 2010, producer, composer, singer, arranger
* ''Comedaccordo'', CD, 2012, album producer, recording engineer
* ''Wise Guys, Antidepressivum'' single, 2013, producer, recording engineer, singer
* ''Bonner Jazzchor, Bottle This Moment'', CD, 2013, album producer, singer
* ''Wise Guys, Achterbahn'', 2014, producer, recording engineer, singer
* ''Wise Guys, Läuft bei euch'', 2015, producer, recording engineer, singer
* ''Wise Guys, Live in Wien'' CD/DVD/Blu-ray, 2016, producer, arranger, singer
* ''Upsweep, Home'', EP, 2017, producer, recording engineer, arranger
* ''Takarabune, Live in Kobe 2017'', CD, 2017, producer, recording engineer
* ''Queen's Tears Honey, JUKEBOX Live From Kobe'', CD, 2017, producer, recording engineer
Published vocal arrangements
* ''Christmas Lullaby'' (Andrea Figallo), Helbling GmbH
* ''Shine'' (Andrea Figallo), Helbling GmbH
* ''She Walks In Beauty'' (Andrea Figallo), Helbling GmbH
*
I Don't Know' (Noa), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
*
' (Rodgers-Hart), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
*
' (Pat Metheny-Noa), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
*
' (Zach Gill), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
*
I Can't Make You Love Me' (Mike Reid, Allen Shamblin), Published by Andrea Figallo
*
' (Giuseppe Rachel, Salvatore Sini), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
*
Dilly Dilly Baby' (Figallo-Kamei), Published by Andrea Figallo
*
' (Figallo-Hüneke-Kamei), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
*
' (Elisa), Published by Edition Ferrimontana GmbH
References
External links
Andrea Figallo official websiteWise Guys websiteThe Ghost Files websiteFlying Pickets websitedon camillo chor website
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1972 births
Living people
People from Gorizia
Italian male singers
Italian male conductors (music)
Italian music arrangers
Vocal coaches
The Flying Pickets members
21st-century Italian conductors (music)
21st-century Italian male musicians