Nevio Passaro

Nevio Passaro
Background information
Birth name Nevio Passaro
Also known as NEVIO
Born (1980-05-11) 11 May 1980
Origin Bad Windsheim, Germany
Genres Pop
Occupation(s) singer, songwriter, producer, interpreter
Instruments vocals, piano, guitar
Years active 1999–present
Labels Universal Music Group, Ariola
Website nevio.tv

Nevio Passaro (born 11 May 1980 in Bad Windsheim) is a German-Italian singer, songwriter and producer,[1] who uses the Italian, German and English language for his self-composed music.[2]

Biography

Nevio Passaro was raised in Neustadt an der Aisch, a city in the south of Germany. Already as a small child he was very interested in music, not in the least because his mother, a music teacher, taught him how to play the piano in an early stage of his life. In the years growing up, he taught himself how to play the piano and the guitar. During his schoolyears he performed small roles in schoolmusicals and started realising his first own projects.

From 2000 to 2005 he studied “Modern foreign languages for interpreters and translators” at the University of Bologna, situated in Forlì. In December 2006 he graduated as simultaneous-interpreter and translator in Italian, German, English and French.

Since 2007 he lives and works in Berlin, where he owns “Studio Uno”, an Artist Management & Recording Studio.[3]

Career

Already in 2009 Nevio released his first single “La mia parola” with BMG Ariola (RCA), after which, in 2006, he reached the fourth place in the third series of the tv-show Deutschland sucht den Superstar. After that and till today he has numerous live-performances through all of Germany, but also in Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, Slovakia and Switzerland. On August 8, 2006, he signed a record deal with Universal Music. His first self-composed single “Amore per sempre” was released at January 19, 2007 and stormed to the second place in the German singlecharts. “Nevio”, his first album, was released on February 16, 2007, went to fifth place in the German album charts and later reached the gold status.

At May 3, 2007 Nevio got the Comet (a german musicprize) in the categorie “Best Newcomer”. He was also nominated in the category “Best Artist”. He also won the Bavarian Popkomm-Musiklöwe as “Shootingstar 2007”. The tour following his album “Nevio”, brought him within 3 weeks to 17 German and Austrian cities.[4]

His second studioalbum “Due” was released in Germany at September 19, 2008.[5] The first single of this album, “Sento”, was released at September 5, 2009. A few days later Nevio hat an unplugged concert at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, where he introduced his new album.[6] The tour following his album “Due” took place in January and February in Germany.

On February 27, 2009 Nevio released a musicvideo to his single “Non Ti Aspettavo (Libertà)”, a duet with the Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi, which was released in april 2009. On the album “Due” is also another duet (Gli ultimi brividi) with the Italian singer Giorgia, winner of the famous Sanremo festival.[7]

The presentation of Nevios third album, “Berlino”, took place on April 7, 2011 in Berlin.[8] The official release of this album was on July 29, 2011, but on May 20, 2011 Nevio released a Fan-Edition of this album. Nevio composed the lyrics and music himself in his own Recording Studio. The tour following his album “Berlino” was in September and October 2011 and went through 15 German cities, ending with a concert in the Austrian capital Vienna.[9]

In 2012 Nevio participated in the Sat.1-Music-Game-Show The Winner is.., in which he won his category “Professionals”.[10] In the same year Nevio visited the German cities Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin on his “Dal vivo”-tour.[11]

The single “Castingstar” was released on March 28, 2014. “Castingstar” is the single, which will lead to Nevios fourth studioalbum “Nordsüdlich von hier”, which will be released in 2015. The songs on this album will all be in the German language.[12]

At the annual musicfair Frankfurt, at April 18, 2015, Nevio received the “Musik-Fachaward” for “Best video 2015” (“Castingstar”) and also in the category “German Act 2015”. On May 1, 2015 Nevio openend the German pavilion of the Expo 2015 in Milan with 2 live-concerts [13] and played at the "Festival der Einheit", which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the German union, together with other famous German music acts at the big stage at the Brandenburg Gate in front of 1 Million people at October 3rd, 2015 [14]

The most recent single “Piccolo re (Make love not war)”, a duet with the italian tenor Domenico Re, was released on November 26, 2015 and is also found on the re-release of the album “Berlino” (“Berlino reloaded”) which is in onlinestores since December 11, 2015. All revenues from this single go, as the half of the revenues from the album, directly to help refugees.[15] [16]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Awards

Live-Band

References

  1. ↑ neoohlive.com: Sänger, Songwriter, Produzent
  2. ↑ woodz.schwarzwaelder-bote.de: Komponist der eigenen Werke
  3. ↑ nevio.tv: Berlin
  4. ↑ musik-base.de: Nevio Tour 2007
  5. ↑ echo-online.de: „Due“
  6. ↑ Konzerthaus Dortmund: Nevio
  7. ↑ nevio.tv: Duett Giorgia
  8. ↑ nevio.tv: Showcase Berlino
  9. ↑ facebook.com: Berlino Tour 2011
  10. ↑ sat1.de:The winner is...
  11. ↑ facebook.com:Dal vivo Tour 2012
  12. ↑ nevio.tv:Neue Single, neues Album
  13. ↑ expo2015-germany.de:Expo 2015
  14. ↑ presseportal.de: 25 Years German union
  15. ↑ amazon:Single "Piccolo re (Make love not war)"
  16. ↑ nevio.tv:Album "Berlino reloaded"
  17. ↑ VIVA: Komet 2007: Die Gewinner
  18. ↑ VIVA: Komet 2007: Die Gewinner
  19. ↑ musik-base.de: Nevio Passaro bekommt Gold für sein Album „Nevio“
  20. ↑ facebook.com: Musik-Fachaward 2015: Best Video
  21. ↑ facebook.com: Musik-Fachaward 2015: German Act
  22. ↑ ticketonline.de:Live-Band

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