Nevio Passaro

Nevio Passaro
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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, who uses the Italian, German and English language for his self-composed music.

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.

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.

His second studioalbum “Due” was released in Germany at September 19, 2008. 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. 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.

The presentation of Nevios third album, “Berlino”, took place on April 7, 2011 in Berlin. 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.

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

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.

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 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

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.

Discography

Albums

• 2007: Nevio
  (released 16 February 2007)
• 2007: Nevio – Viva la Musica Edition
  (released 5 October 2007)
• 2008: Due
  (released 19 September 2008)
• 2011: Berlino
  (released 29 July 2011)
• 2015: Berlino reloaded
  (released 11 December 2015)

Singles

• 1999: La Mia Parola
  (released 26 March 1999)
• 2007: Amore per Sempre
  (released 19 January 2007)
• 2007: Run Away
  (released 18 May 2007)
• 2007: Firenze / Giulia
  (released 21 September 2007)
• 2008: Sento
  (released 5 September 2008)
• 2009: Non Ti Aspettavo (Libertà)
  (released 10 April 2009)
• 2011: Oraieridomani
  (released 6 May 2011)
• 2014: Castingstar
  (released 28 March 2014)
• 2015: Piccolo re (Make love not war)
  (released 26 November 2015)

Awards

• 2007: Comet for Best Newcomer
• 2007: Comet Nomination for Best Artist national
• 2007: Gold record for album Nevio (in Germany)
• 2007: Bayerischer Musiklöwe for Best Newcomer
• 2008: Nomination for Bravo Otto
• 2008: Nomination for Echo in categorie „Nachwuchspreis der Deutschen Phonoakademie“
• 2015: www.drums.de Musik-Fachaward 2015 in categorie „Best Video“
• 2015: www.drums.de Musik-Fachaward 2015 in categorie „German Act“

Live-Band

• Guitar: Pivo Deinert
• Keys: Stephan Kunz
• Bass: Thomas Stieger
• Drums: Andre Wenzlitschke

External links

• Official website