Giorgio Onorato Aquilani (born in Tarqunia on March 8th 1983) is Marketing Director in his family firm, F.lli Aquilani srl. Grown up with an unstoppable passion for music, he always found time and space to live it both as a fan and an artist. His music influences do belong to a wide variety of genres, starting from black music, west coast rock to brit pop. Giorgio has been working together with his lyric partner Ivan Nossa for a very long time starting to write and publish their first material on way back on year 2000. Since then, the lucky duo released 2 albums and a single project called IV TOTO which toured the world. Now famous on the world scene with the revolutionary Party Of The Century music project!

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Elton John, TOTO, Queen, Cat Stevens, Supertramp, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, James Blunt.

Bio

Giorgio Onorato Aquilani was born in Tarquinia on march 8, 1983.

Introduced to piano-playing by his well known godfather Renato Carosone.

Pianist, singer, songwriter, at 17 years old he composes the official Peace anthem for the year 2000 Jubelee, performing it in the Vatican..s Gardens in front of the Pope and 112 state chiefs from all over the world.

His first success is a single named What You Do. The track tours the world radio stations conquering all the fans of a famous irish band: The Corrs, to whom it was dedicated.

In 2004 he performs at the Venice Cinema Palace getting the celebrated Gondola d..Oro prize as upcoming international pop figure.

In 2005 he partecipates to an international music challenge organized for Elton John..s Captain Fantastic 30th Birthday. He gets the first place being rewarded at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York after composing and singing Dogs In The Kitchen, lyric written by Bernie Taupin and never turned into song by Elton John.

In 2005 he composes all the musical themes for the Venice Poetry Biennale.

He writes for musicals and audiobooks.

In 2006 he finishes the recording of 11 tracks (in english language) for his first indipendent album named giorgio@aquilani.it , whose songs toured worldwide radio stations! The CD is delivered in a vinyl cd inside a metal movie can... check it on cdbaby.com

In 2006 his voice is chosen by sony pictures for the italian version of a song featured in their latest animated movie: Open Season www.openseason.com.

In April 2007 the song The End Of My Road gets a nomination for best pop song at 17th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards. A very important event claimed to be "the largest and longest running Hollywood red carpet event for Independent Artists in the world!". http://www.lamusicawards.com/

In March 2008 IV TOTO - Worldwide TOTO Fans Anthem is released. The project comes out from an idea of Giorgio's and tours the world. Giorgio wrote the music for the IV TOTO track, played the piano and sung on it... The track features Bobby Kimball as special guest. Visit http://www.ivtoto.com for more infos.

In April 2008 - Giorgio performs his own music in the greatest theatre in the world, LA FENICE in Venice during the second endition of the event: La Biennale Della Poesia.

In June 2008 Giorgio starts the recording of his second album, a big international project with some of the most important music stars from all over the world.... In June 2009 the record is almost ready and due to be released on march 25th 2010... Over 30 of the best and legendary musicians of all time, together with Giorgio for the Party Of The Century