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Italian singer, born in Milan in 1981. Considered by critics one of the Italian leading interpreters of the Italian and American songbook, over the years he sold more than 60 thousand physical copies of his albums worldwide. He performed in more than 800 concerts in Italy, Europe, China, Russia e USA, and at the "Blue Note" in Milan he has grossed 12 SOLD OUT shows. His latest album "Made in Italy", released in 2015, features Italian classics and originals and duets with Fiorello, Renzo Arbore and Fabrizio Bosso. His debut album, released in 2006, Just Smile, featured a mixture of standards and inspired comparisons to Frank Sinatra and Nicola Arigliano. The album, recorded with Italian jazz musicians Renato Sellani, Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Massimo Moriconi, Stefano Bagnoli and Fabrizio Bosso was enthusiastically received by audiences and critics both nationally and internationally. For seven years he has been listed among the ten best jazz singers in the referendum of the Italian magazine "Jazz-It". He topped four times the iTunes Jazz chart. He is often called by the press "The Italian Crooner" for being the best known Italian interpreter of the swing jazz genre worlwide. Awarded “Best New Talent” at Elba Jazz in 2008, Brancaleoni's second album, Live in Studio, released in 2009, remained among the remained for 208 weeks among the best-selling jazz records on the Apple store. A live DVD, Live! With the Gianpaolo Petrini Big Band followed in 2011. He has publicly received the esteem of the likes of Riz Ortolani and Michael Buble (with whom he duetted live in 2007 in Rome). In 2012 working with the roman based producer Papik he releases his third album "New Life" featuring standards and more originals.
