Simone Giuliani (born May 1, 1973) is an Italian musician, film composer, arranger, record producer and music director based in

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, New York. He is also a

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and a pianist.

Background

Simone Giuliani was born in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...

, Italy. In the early 90s he worked with the Italian punk-rock band

Diaframma Diaframma is an Italian band, one of the dark wave, gothic Italian acts to come out of Florence during the early 80s along with Litfiba. Diaframma originated from the meeting of punk - though it was starting to decline at the time -, new wave ...

as a

, 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.

Music (''Production, Arrangement, Remixes & Soundtracks'')

Giuliani collaborated with

Miho Hatori is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known as a solo artist, co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto, and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz, as well as for her work with t ...

from

Cibo Matto Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject m ...

and

Gorillaz Gorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, from London. The band primarily consists of four fictional members: 2-D (character), 2-D (Singing, vocals, Musical keyboard, keyboards), Murd ...

on the soundtrack for the movie Color Me Love and has worked with

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-winning producer Robert Sadin (

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Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he hel ...

) and avant-garde cellist

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. Simone has worked on remixes for Beyoncé,

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and

Sia Sia Kate Isobelle Furler ( ; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she rel ...

. He produced

Monday Michiru is a Japanese American actress, singer, and songwriter whose music encompasses and fuses a wide variety of genres including jazz, dance, pop, and soul. She is arguably best known for being a pioneer of the acid jazz movement in Japan in the ...

's album Brasilified featuring a remake of

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's hit song Parabéns and

's Tell Me a Bedtime Story. He collaborated with

on their album

Hotel Valentine ''Hotel Valentine'' is the third and final album by New York City-based band Cibo Matto. It was released through Sean Lennon's label Chimera Music on Valentine's Day (February 14), 2014. The album was produced by band members Miho Hatori and Yuka ...

released on

Sean Lennon is an American–British musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The ...

's labe
Chimera Music
Simone wrote the string arrangement for 'Ni Antes... Ni Después', the album by pop/R&B artist

Aneeka Aneeka (born Andrea Martínez; August 18, 1985) is a Venezuelan singer born in San Cristóbal. Her name means ''believe'' in Wayuu. Career Aneeka sought opportunities to record an album in Venezuela but was unsuccessful. She found willing inves ...

, nominated as

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at the 2014 Latin Grammy Awards and New Artist of the Year at the 2015 Lo Nuestro Awards. He collaborated with producer Jason Olaine on rare live recordings of

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie,

Thelonious Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk (, October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including " 'Round Midnight", ...

, Louis Armstrong released by

Concord Music Group Concord Music Group was an American independent music company based in Beverly Hills, California, with worldwide (including the U.S.) distribution through Universal Music Group. The company specialized in recordings ( Fearless Records, Concord R ...

and

Monterey Jazz Festival Records The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It debuted on October 3, 1958, championed by Dave Brubeck and co-founded by jazz and popular music critic Ralph J. Gleason and jazz d ...

. Simone also wrote original music for the

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and

Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainmen ...

ad campaigns. Giuliani is currently working with New York-based composer/guitaris
Ian Gittler
on a forthcoming music project.

Music (''Live'')

As a keyboard player/pianist Simone Giuliani has performed with

Jovanotti Lorenzo Cherubini (; born 27 September 1966), better known as Jovanotti (), is an Italian singer-songwriter, rapper and disc jockey. The name Jovanotti derives from ''giovanotti'', the plural form of the Italian word ''giovanotto'' ("young man") ...

Yuka Honda Yuka Honda is a Japanese-American musician who resides in New York City. She is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly piano, synthesizer, sampler and other keyboards), composer, record producer, and co-founder of the band Cibo Matto. Throughout her ...

's Machina Mia with guitarist/composer

Nels Cline Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex, a percussionist. He has w ...

and bassist

Devin Hoff Devin Hoff is an American bassist, composer and arranger. Hoff has collaborated with Julia Holter, Nels Cline, Sharon Van Etten, Shannon Lay, Cibo Matto, Kira Roessler, Good For Cows, Xiu Xiu, and others. Hoff has also released three albums ...

's New Optimism,

DJ Logic DJ Logic (born 1972 as Jason Kibler) is an American turntablist active primarily in nu-jazz/ acid jazz and with jam bands. Kibler was born and raised in The Bronx, NY. Because of an early interest in hip hop, Kibler started using the turntabl ...

Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop group formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992. Its original members include RZA, GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Masta Killa. Close a ...

Timo Ellis Timothy Kneeland "Timo" Ellis is a multi-instrumentalist and record producer from New York City, and is frontman vocalist for the band Netherlands. In 1997 Ellis and Sean Lennon joined Cibo Matto. As a quartet (Yuka Honda Yuka Honda is ...

Little Louie Vega Luis Ferdinand Vega Jr. (born June 12, 1965), as known as "Little Louie" Vega, is an American DJ, record producer and Grammy Award winner remixer of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is one half of the Masters at Work musical production team. Biograph ...

and the

Grammy The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...

-nominated contemporary jazz group Groove Collective. Simone is a core member of the band The Happening with

Jamie Catto James David Catto (born 14 August 1968 in London, England) is a British musician, video director, photographer, and script editor. He was a founding member of Faithless, before leaving in 1999 to form 1 Giant Leap. Career Faithless Educated a ...

(

1 Giant Leap 1 Giant Leap is a British electronic music duo consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto (Faithless founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman. Career Based in the UK, the two musicians set out to create a multimedia project that woul ...

), Dave Randall (

Faithless Faithless are an English band that formed in 1995, with its core members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. Their first album, '' Reverence'', was released in 1996 and their most recent, '' All Blessed'', in 2020. They have sold milli ...

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, '' The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want Wha ...

), multimedia artist/musician Alex Forster and Renaud-Gabriel Pion (

Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct three-octave vocal range and eccentric persona, she has de ...

Antony and the Johnsons Antony and the Johnsons is an American music group presenting the work of Anohni and her collaborators. Career British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Anohni's music through his Durtro lab ...

Activism

With singer/multimedia artist Jihae and

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Matthias Gohl Matthias Gohl is a Swiss musical producer/director/supervisor/composer of film scores and stage productions. He produced most of Elliot Goldenthal's film scores (starting in 1987 with the score to Pet Sematary) as well others. Two scores that he ...

, Simone is the producer o
Let's Come Together
a musical peace movement supporting the

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

(UNHCR) and NGOs in their fight for human rights in the midst of the current global refugee crisis. Simone Giuliani is a member and Director of Music Programs of MoMENT NYC, a non-profit music education program founded by Genji Siraisi of Groove Collective presenting the history of music in New York City through live performances in public schools.

Writing

Simone Giuliani is a contributing writer of the book 'The Spiritual Significance of Music' published by Xtreme Music in May 2011. He's currently working on the release of his new book.

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) * Cibo Matto 'Hotel Valentine' (Chimera Music) * Monday Michiru 'Brasilified' (Billboard Records) * Smoove 'As If' remix (Acid Jazz Records) * Natalie Williams 'The Way We Like It' remix (Eastide Records) * 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) * Peppe Voltarelli ' La grande corsa verso Lupionòpolis' (Visage Music)

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, playing

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

and singing in a traveling

circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and uni ...

in the 1880s. He learned how to read and write music in a barber shop in Molino Del Piano, a small village in

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at age 9. He studied at

Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini The Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini is located in piazza delle Belle Arti in Florence. The conservatory, among the most important in Italy, is named after the Florentine composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842). History The conservatory occupies pa ...

and at

The Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most elit ...

in New York with

Conrad Cummings Conrad Cummings (born February 10, 1948) 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 reminisc ...

and Daniel Ott. Simone Giuliani is endorsed by Lexicon Pro Audio®.

References

External links

Simone Giuliani Official Website

Moment NYC

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giuliani, Simone 1973 births Living people Italian keyboardists Italian record producers Italian music arrangers Italian film score composers Italian male film score composers Italian audio engineers