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Umberto Alongi (born 26 July 1976) is a Swiss Italian singer and songwriter.




Biography


After living and sharing his time for years between Italy (where he was born) and Switzerland, beginning in 2014 he has been producing two solo albums through the record labels Im Digital, Auditoria Records and with Me & U Records and Artists Management based in London. Alongi sings in Italian, Spanish and English in addition to playing guitar.
As of September 2015 he is included in the Swiss pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. In October 2015 he participated in the Ghedi Festival for unreleased songs as the only Swiss male artist in the competition. He reached the semi-finals by beating a selection of 300 artists with the song "Come stai".
The song "Come stai" written by Marco Giorgi (Mariadele) was launched on the radio on 30 November 2015. The song reached the Italian airplay ranking in 7th place out of the 10 tracks most broad-cast by Italian radio and the 72nd place in the international top 100. The song was produced by the record company Latlantide, the company with which Alongi will produce his new album.
He has collaborated with Valentino Alfano (Mina), Marco Elfo Buongiovanni (Cugini di campagna), Matteo Di Franco (Adriano Celentano, Patty Pravo, Tullio De Piscopo) and Andrea Zuppini (Fabio Concato, Alex Baroni, Fiorella Mannoia).
Umberto Alongi was the founding member of Diesel 23 in Lugano in 2010 with whom he performed for five years until the band broke up in early 2015. With Diesel 23 he released the album Last Chance through the Music-Mad Records label.
He was the founder in 2016 of the charity project "Contesti" in favor of OTAF Foundation with the participation of six other Swiss Italian artists. For this project he composed with Valentino Alfano a song named "Noi siamo qui".
As of September 2016 he is included in the Swiss selection for the Eurovision song contest 2017 with a new song "I can just be me". This song is candidate for "Die grosse entscheidungsshow" and it is included on his new album entitled 3 minuti.
A new album titled Illimitatamente was released in November 2017 in Fino Mornasco Italy, played with Massimo Scoca (bass player) Stewart Copeland, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bryan Adams, John Martyn, Level 42, Bob Geldof, Tito Gomez (European Tour), John Davis, Linda Wesley, Paul Jeffrey, Tullio De Piscopo, Gatto Panceri, Enzo Iannacci, Enrico Ruggeri, Lucio Dalla and many more); Giordano Colombo (drums player) (Franco Battiato, Antony and the Johnson, Gianna Nannini, Giorgia, Alessandra Amoroso, Valerio Scanu etc); Antonio "Aki" Chindamo (Caterina Valente, Rockets, Marco Ferradini, Riccardo Fogli, Paola Turci, Andrea Braido); Andrea Gentile (guitar player) (Raphael Gualazzi, Giovanni Caccamo, Deborah Iurato, Ermal Meta, Benji e Fede, Marco Carta, Simone Tomassini, Paolo Meneguzzi, Niccolò Agliardi).
The last single "Pura Follia" was launched on the radio on 18 June 2018.
The song reached the Italian airplay ranking in 1st place out of the 10 tracks most broad-cast by Italian radio.
On 2019 He released the new album "Se amore c'è", reaching the Italian airplay indie chart with the single "Con quanto c'è da fare".
The new studio album "Equidistanti" was launched in December 2020. The album was recorded at the Roxy Studio with the featurings of Kenya and AREA.
Alongi announces the recording of the new album and launches the new singles 'A due passi dal cielo' and 'Ora c'è il sole'. 'A due passi dal cielo' reaches number two in the Italian radio charts in its first week since its release.

Umberto Alongi announces the production of his upcoming album and releases preview singles. The first single of 2024 is titled "Una risposta non c'è".




Collaborations


Gaetano Capitano
Antony Franceschi
Marco Giorgi
Valentino Alfano
Marco Elfo Buongiovanni
Andrea Zuppini
Matteo Di Franco




Selected discography






= Studio albums

=
3 minuti – (Me&U Records – iM Digital) – 2016
Illimitatamente – (Me&U Records – Auditoria Records)- 2017
Se amore c'è – (Me&U Records)- 2019
Equidistanti – (Me&U Records)- 2020




= Singles

=
Come il respiro – (Tunecore) – 2015
Con un altro – (Me&U Records) – 2015
Come stai – (Latlantide) – 2015
Che Natale è – (Me&U Records) – 2015
Lei non-c'è più (Latlantide) – 2016
3 minuti – (Me&U Records – iM Digital) – 2016
Ragazzi Italiani – (Auditoria Records) – 2017
Tempo ne avrò – (Me&U Records – Auditoria Records) – 2017
Il futuro si è perso – (Me&U Records – Sony Music Publishing) – 2018
Pura Follia – (Me&U Records) – 2018
A due passi dal cielo - (Latlantide) - 2023
Ora c'è il sole - (iMDSuisse) - 2023
Una risposta non c'è - (Me&U Records) - 2023




= Featuring

=
I miss you – Diesel'23 – 2015
Someone to love – Diesel'23 – 2015
Noi siamo qui – Contesti – (Me&U Records) – 2016
Oh Anima feat. Valentino Alfano – (Auditoria Records) – 2017




= Spanish-language singles

=
Abrazame – 2014
Como estas – 2015




Appearances


Eurovision Song Contest – September 2015 – Switzerland Pre-selection
Eurovision Song Contest – September 2016 – Switzerland Pre-selection
Ghedi Festival – November 2015 – Semi-finalist




External links



Official website
Umberto Alongi Artist page MusicBrainz




References

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