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

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, Italy. In the early 90s he worked with the Italian

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band

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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 ...

from

Cibo Matto Cibo Matto (, Italian language, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Their first album, ''Viva! La Woman'' (1996), had lyrics primarily concerned with food. ...

and

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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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) and avant-garde cellist

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. Simone has worked on remixes for

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and Sia. He produced

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's album Brasilified featuring a remake of

Marcos Valle Marcos Kostenbader Valle (born 14 September 1943) is a Brazilian singer, musician, and songwriter. He has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, and fusions of rock, soul, jazz, and dance music with Brazilian styles. ...

'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 February 14 (Valentine's Day), 2014. The album was produced by band members Miho Hatori and Yuka ...

released on

Sean Lennon is a British-American musician, songwriter, and producer. 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 Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tige ...

's labe
Chimera Music
Simone wrote the

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for 'Ni Antes... Ni Después', the album by pop/R&B artist

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, 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 jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music, 20th-century music. Davis ado ...

Sarah Vaughan Sarah Lois Vaughan (, March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "List of nicknames of jazz musicians, The Divine One", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, ...

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

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Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...

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 and music publishing. On Apri ...

and Monterey Jazz Festival Records. Simone also wrote original music for the

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and

Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the ...

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

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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 career, she ...

's Machina Mia with guitarist/composer

Nels Cline Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been a 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 wor ...

and bassist

Devin Hoff Devra Hoff is an American bassist, composer, and arranger. She is a member of Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory and co-founder of Mendoza Hoff Revels with Ava Mendoza. Career Hoff composed work for the ''Wholphin'' short film ''Look ...

's New Optimism,

DJ Logic DJ Logic (born Lee Jason Kibler, 1972) is an American DJ primarily known for his work in nu-jazz, acid-jazz, and with jam bands. Life and career Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Kibler displayed an early interest in hip hop, funk, an ...

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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, Miho Hatori 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 remixer of Puerto Ricans in the United States, Puerto Rican ancestry. He is one half of the Masters at Work musical production ...

and the

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-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 at ...

(

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), Dave Randall (

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Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; , ; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and activist. Her debut studio album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and achieve ...

), 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 voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...

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Activism

With singer/multimedia artist Jihae and Oscar winner

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 ha ...

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

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(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

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and singing in a traveling

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

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

at age 9. He studied at Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in

and at

The Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

in New York with Conrad Cummings and

Daniel Ott Daniel Ott (born 6 September 1960) is a Swiss composer. Career Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent thea ...

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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