Virginio (singer)

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Virginio
Background information
Birth nameVirginio Simonelli
Born (1985-01-31) January 31, 1985 (age 39)
Fondi (LT), Lazio, Italy
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • piano
Years active2005–present
LabelsUniversal Music
(2005-2006, 2011-2014, 2022-present)
iMean Music
(2015-2019)
MP Film
(2020-present)
Websitevirginiosimonelli.it

Virginio Simonelli (Italian pronunciation: [virˈdʒiːnjo simoˈnɛlli]; born January 31, 1985), simply known as Virginio, is an Italian pop singer.

He made his debut in 2006 in the Sanremo Festival's New Proposals category with the song Davvero.

Wind Music Award.[2]

Biography

As a child, Virginio showed a natural predisposition to music. As a teenager, he learned to play the piano, sing, and compose his first songs, also experimenting with dancing and acting. After graduating from the Gobetti High School in his hometown, Fondi, he moved to Milan. There, he enrolled in the Nuova Accademia Delle Belle Arti (New Academy of Fine Arts), where he graduated in Graphic Design And Art Direction, getting in touch with producers Paolo Agosta (his professor) and Ivo Grasso, with whom he began collaborating.

First steps in music: Sanremo Nuove Proposte and the first album Virginio

In 2006 he took part in the 56th Sanremo Music Festival in the category New Proposals with a song written by him, Davvero that anticipated his first album Virginio, produced by Ivo Grasso and Fabrizio Grenghi. The album contains ten tracks and the lyrics were written by the singer along with Paolo Agosta,[3] who also composed the music. The second single Instabile was released in May and the third one Novembre in October.

In 2010 he made his first experience as an author, writing with Paola & Chiara the tracks Milleluci and Adesso Stop!, of which he also composed the music, contained in their album Milleluci.

Winner of "Amici di Maria De Filippi" and the EP "Finalmente"

In September 2010 Virginio passed the selections of the tenth edition of Amici di Maria De Filippi.[4] During the contest Virginio presented Ad Occhi Chiusi, Non Ha Importanza and Dolcenotte and won the competition in March 2011.[5]

On March 8, 2011, he published his second studio album Finalmente promoted by the singles Ad occhi chiusi and Sale. The album sold over 30,000 copies and it was certified gold and therefore awarded at the Wind Music Awards.[2]

"Ovunque" and second experience in Amici

On March 26, 2012, Virginio published his third album "Ovunque",[6] featuring the singles Alice and La Dipendenza and a song, Catch Me, that Gary Barlow, leader of Take That, gave to Virginio, who translated it into Italian with the title Tu Mi Senti.

From March 31, 2012 Virginio attended the eleventh edition of Amici in a special contest, called Big, where former contestants of previous editions of the show challenged each other, but Virginio was eliminated during the 3rd episode.

In 2013 he composed and wrote for and with Laura Pausini the songs Limpido, in duet with Kylie Minogue, and Dove resto solo io.

2015-2019

In 2015 he was the opening act for one of the shows of Malika Ayane's Naïf tour and released the single Hercules, produced in San Francisco by Corrado Rustici and written with Andy Marvel, Dimitri Ehrlich and Jesse Harris. In the same year he was one of the authors of the lyrics to Raf's Rimani tu. In 2016, together with Andrea Ferrara, he wrote and composed the m music for Weird by Lorenzo Fragola.[7]

In 2016, Virginio participated with a cover of Royals by Lorde to the compilation A.M.I. - Rarities of Artists for Amatrice was released.[8] In 2017 he co-authored lyrics and music for Chiara Galiazzo's song Chiaroscuro.

In July 2017 he participated to the festival Symphonic Night Vol 2 Napoli Fantasy at Shibuya O-EAST in Tokyo,[9] as the guest vocalist of Corrado Rustici's prog-rock band Cervello, an event from which a live CD and DVD entitled Live in Tokyo 2017 was released.[10] In September 2018 she is part of the cast, at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan, of the musical event Buon compleanno Mimì, organized by the cultural association Minuetto in memory of Mia Martini, paying tribute to the artist with a cover of Il fiume dei profumi, a song written for her by Biagio Antonacci.[11] In 2017 he released the single Semplifica, produced by Gianluigi Fazio and written in collaboration with Fazio himself and Edwyn Roberts, which was promoted live by Virginio during the 2018's edition of the Italian event Festival Show.[12]

In 2018 he collaborated again with Laura Pausini with whom he co-authored the lyrics of Fantastico (Fai quello che sei), E.sta.a.te and Il caso è chiuso,[13] he was then an opening act of five of Pausini's Fatti sentire World Wide Tour 2018 shows.[14] In November 2018, he performed in Osaka at the "Italia, amore mio!" festival, an event organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce that promotes made in Italy music, art, food and wine in Japan.[15] In the same year, he released the single Rischiamo tutto[16] and in 2019 Cubalibre, whose video inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, directed by Alessandro Congiu, was awarded as Video revelation of the year at the Premio Roma Videoclip 2019.[17]

With a conference at the Chamber of Deputies[18] in June 2016, it was announced that Virginio would collaborate on Parole liberate: beyond the prison wall, a poetry contest, conceived by Duccio Parodi and Michele De Lucia, reserved for people in prison. The winning poem, P.S. post scriptum, by then inmate Giuseppe Catalano, in fact, was set to music by Virginio and recorded and published in 2019. P.S. post scriptum was awarded Best Lyrics at the International Short Film Festival Tulipani di Seta Nera.[19]

Between 2018 and 2019 he collaborated with Officine Buone, a non-profit organization that brings live music to hospitals, also participating in the

2019-2021 COVID-19 pandemic.[21]

2020-today

In 2020, he participated in Tale e quale show (the Italian version of Sing Your Face Off) and took on the role of music artistic director of MP FILM, a film-music production company.[22] In the same year he also signed the sound direction of Donne - Storie che ispirano, a docu-series about women with breast cancer by Italian TV channel LA7d,[23][24] and of Manteniamoci Informate, an ovarian cancer awareness campaign.[25] He also supported his hometown, Fondi, which became a "red zone" during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy with a charitable concert, Artisti ProFondi, streamed on April 2, 2020, featuring Marco Masini, Arisa, Noemi and other colleagues[26][27][28]

In 2021 he released the singles Rimani[29] (also presented in Latin America in its Spanish-language version Mañana in 2022[30][31]) and Brava gente.[32] Also in 2021 he co-wrote Ti vedo da fuori by Alessandra Amoroso, featured on the album Tutto accade.[33]

Between February and April 2022 he co-wrote the song Quello che abbiamo perso by

Universal Music Italy[[35] and wrote with Daniele Coro Il panda con le ali, a song that participated in the 65th edition of the Zecchino d'Oro and was the winner of the event.[36][37]

In September 2022, he announced, during the 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, his new single Non dirlo a nessuno, and its Spanish version No le digas a nadie, the main song of the soundtrack of Alessio Russo's film of the same name, in which Virginio also takes part with a cameo.[59][60][61] On December 11, 2022, he participated in and won the second edition of the Christmas version of the Italian TV program Tale e quale show with his performance as George Michael, singing Last Christmas.[38]

In winter 2023 he collaborated in the creation of the song Un milione di piccole tempeste performed by Gianni Morandi. On May 25, 2023, he released his new single Il giorno con la notte in Italian and El día con la noche in Spanish, featuring Teo Bok and with the production of Julio Reyes Copello.[39] In June 2023 he worked again with Laura Pausini, writing for her Il primo passo sulla Luna and Vale la pena for her new album Anime Parallele.

In January 2024 he wrote for and with Alberto Urso Mille domande.

Private life

On May 24, 2023, he came out as gay in an interview with Vanity Fair Italy.[40]

Discography

Albums

  • 2006 – Virginio (March 3, 2006)
  • 2011 – Finalmente (March 8, 2011) (ITA #4; Gold – 30,000+ copies)
  • 2012 – Ovunque (March 26, 2012) (ITA #12)

Compilation

  • 2011 – Amici 10 (with other contestants of Amici)

Singles

  • 2006 – Davvero
  • 2006 – Instabile
  • 2006 – Novembre
  • 2011 – Ad occhi chiusi
  • 2011 – Sale
  • 2012 – Alice (Elis)
  • 2012 – La Dipendenza
  • 2015 – Hercules
  • 2018 – Semplifica
  • 2018 – Rischiamo tutto
  • 2019 - Cubalibre
  • 2019 - P.S. post scriptum
  • 2021 - Rimani
  • 2021 - Brava gente
  • 2022 - Collisioni feat. Bianca Atzei
  • 2022 - Mañana
  • 2022 - M'incanta
  • 2022 - Non dirlo a nessuno
  • 2023 - El día con la noche feat. Teo Bok

Videos

  • 2006: Davvero
  • 2006: Instabile
  • 2011: Ad occhi chiusi
  • 2011: Sale
  • 2012: Alice (Elis)
  • 2012: La Dipendenza
  • 2015: Hercules
  • 2018 - Semplifica
  • 2018 - Rischiamo tutto
  • 2019 - Cubalibre
  • 2019 - P.S. post scriptum
  • 2021 - Rimani
  • 2021 - Brava gente
  • 2022 - Collisioni feat. Bianca Atzei
  • 2022 - Mañana
  • 2022 - M'incanta
  • 2022 - Non dirlo a nessuno
  • 2023 - Il giorno con la notte
  • 2023 - El día con la noche

Tours

  • 2011
    • Finalmente Tour
  • 2012
    • Ovunque Tour
  • 2017
    • Acoustic Live Tour

Other tours

  • 2011
    • Nokia Amici in Tour
    • Sete di Radio Tour
    • Radio Bruno estate tour
    • Radionorba Battiti Live
    • Company Contatto

Author and composer for other singers

Year Title Artist Album
2010 Milleluci
(Lyrics:
Paola Iezzi
, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Virginio Simonelli) 		Paola & Chiara Milleluci
Adesso stop!
(Lyrics: Chiara Iezzi, Paola Iezzi - Music: Virginio Simonelli)
2012 Riflessi di me
(Lyrics: Francesca Michielin, Virginio Simonelli - Music:
Elisa Toffoli
) 		Francesca Michielin Riflessi di me
2013 Limpido
(Lyrics: Laura Pausini, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Virginio Simonelli) 		Laura Pausini feat. Kylie Minogue 20 – The Greatest Hits
Dove resto solo io
(Lyrics: Laura Pausini, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Virginio Simonelli) 		Laura Pausini
2014 Qualcosa resta sempre
(Lyrics: Virginio Simonelli - Music: Chris Loco, Natalia Hajjara e Philippe Marc Anquetil) 		Chiara Un giorno di sole
2015 Rimani tu
(Lyrics and music:
Raffaele Riefoli, Virginio Simonelli and Luca Vicini[41]
) 		Raf Sono io
Como yo sabría
(Lyrics and music: Laura Pausini and Virginio Simonelli[42]) 		Maverick López Sánchez 18+1
2016 Weird
(Lyrics and music: Andrea Ferrara, Virginio Simonelli) 		Lorenzo Fragola Zero Gravity
2017 Chiaroscuro
(Lyrics: Chiara Galiazzo, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Gianluigi Fazio, Virginio Simonelli) 		Chiara
Nessun posto è casa mia
2018 Fantastico (fai quello che sei)
(Lyrics: Laura Pausini, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Laura Pausini, Paolo Carta) 		Laura Pausini Fatti sentire
Il caso è chiuso
(Lyrics: Laura Pausini, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Daniel Vuletic)
E.sta.a.te
(Lyrics: Laura Pausini, Virginio Simonelli - Music: Paolo Carta)
Tra le mani
(Lyrics and music: Andrea Bonomo and Virginio Simonelli[43]) 		Carmen Ferreri La complicità
2019 Punto a capo
(Lyrics and music: Virginio Simonelli[44]) 		Più forti del ricordo
Magnifico donare
(Lyrics and music: Virginio Simonelli[45]) Promotional song for AVIS, Italian charitable organisation for blood donation[46] 		Chiara —
2020 Ognuno per sé
(Lyrics and music: Virginio Simonelli[47]) 		Francesco Bertoli Carpe Diem
2021 Ti vedo da fuori
(Lyrics and music: Federica Camba, Daniele Coro, Virginio Simonelli[48]) 		Alessandra Amoroso Tutto accade
2022 Quello che abbiamo perso
(Lyrics and music: Diego Mancino, Daniele Coro, Virginio Simonelli[49]) 		Giusy Ferreri Cortometraggi
2023 Un milione di piccole tempeste
(Lyrics and music: Diego Mancino, Daniele Coro, Federica Camba, Virginio Simonelli[50]) 		Gianni Morandi Evviva!
Il primo passo sulla Luna
(Lyrics: Virginio Simonelli, Cheope, Laura Pausini - Music: Virginio Simonelli, Jason Rooney[51]) 		Laura Pausini
Anime Parallele
Vale la pena
(Lyrics and music: Virginio Simonelli, Daniele Coro, Denise Faro, Diego Mancino, Laura Pausini)
2024 Mille domande
(Lyrics and music: Virginio Simonelli, Alberto Urso, Daniele Coro, Fabio Arduini[52]) 		Alberto Urso —

Awards

References

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  7. ^ "LORENZO FRAGOLA: Ecco la tracklist di "Zero Gravity", tra gli autori anche VIRGINIO". February 19, 2016.
  8. ^ "√ Esce la benefit compilation A.M.I. Rarità di Artisti per Amatrice con Syria, Gerardina Trovato e altri".
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  12. ^ "Virginio annuncia "Semplifica", il nuovo singolo: "la leggerezza è il contrario della superficialità come diceva Italo Calvino"". June 17, 2018.
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  30. ^ "Univision Reaches More Hispanic Viewers Than Any Other Network in the USA - Señal News".
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  36. ^ "Zecchino d'Oro 2022: 14 interpreti per 17 canzoni scritte da tanti autori. Da Ruggeri a Virginio, da Checco Zalone a Deborah Iurato". June 30, 2022.
  37. ^ ""Il panda con le ali" vince il 65° Zecchino d'Oro". December 24, 2022.
  38. ^ "Virginio vince "Natale e Quale show" con "Last Christmas" degli Wham (VIDEO)". December 12, 2022.
  39. ^ "Italia e America latina ancora più vicine... Teo Bok e Virginio lanciano "Il giorno con la notte" e "El dia con la noche"". May 19, 2023.
  40. ^ "Virginio: "Sono gay ma non chiamatelo coming out"". May 24, 2023.
  41. ^ ""Rimani tu" anticipa il nuovo album di RAF in uscita il 30 giugno (TESTO e LYRIC VIDEO)". April 23, 2015.
  42. ^ "Laura Pausini e Virginio Simonelli scrivono per Maverick Lopez di the Voice". August 7, 2015.
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