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"Matteo has something special. Gee, he really can sing. His album moved me. Wonderful musicians. He's a  great vocalist with a huge talent."
Michael Bublè

"Just Smile is a beautiful album. Matteo has a gorgeous voice and much talent, he's one of the most exciting singers of his generation. He's welcome and I wish to him all the best"
Renzo Arbore

“We need more talented singer like Matteo!”

Riz Ortolani (songwriter of “MORE - from Mondo Cane”)

"A unique album of pure and exceptional beauty" Jazz Magazine

“Just Smile: an acoustic delight” Valerio Venturi, Secolo XIX

Bio
Matteo Brancaleoni was born in Milan in 1981. Young artist with versatile and original personality: actor, singer, journalist, musician. In 2006 it has been released his critic acclaimed debut album “Just Smile” with pianist Renato Sellani, featuring first rate Italian musicians guests like Gianni Basso, Franco Cerri, Fabrizio Bosso, Stefano Bagnoli, Massimo Moriconi.

His performances have also been heard worldwide on:  Notturno Italiano (Radio Rai International), Viva Radio2 (Radio Rai2), Battiti (Radio Radi3), Capital Groove Master (Radio Capital), R101, Radio StereoNotte, RPS, RStereo5, R103, Jazz Syndacate Radio (UK), BBC (UK), Radio Jazz Plus (Canada), Radio Palermo in Buenos Aires (Argentina), RTSI (Swiss Radio) on Broadway, Hollywood, Las Vegas conducted by Giuliano Fournier, Punto Radio FM, Radio Jazz Portugal. By the time he was 14, he began singing and performing clubs around Northern Italy.
Finalist for the IMUA International Massimo Urbani Jazz Music Award in 2006. His recordings were also featured in the Radio Festival of Italian Jazz Singers as one of the most talented young italian jazz vocalist. He studied for 4 years with Danila Satragno and one year (2004) at theState Conservatory Of Cuneo Course of Jazz - Afro American Music, and Berklee Summer School at Umbria Jazz Clinics with Donna McElroy in 2006. He is currently attending his last year at Performing Arts University of Turin with theatre specialization. In 2002 he takes part in the cast of "Musical Dreams" PromoArt Montecarlo.
He has performed in Italy, USA : Blue Note Milan, National Museum of Motion Picture, Umbria Jazz,International Book Fair Turin, Bollate Jazz Fest, Saluzzo Jazz D.O.C., Not Just Jazz Milano, Italian Jazz SongsFestival Sanremo, Massimo Urbani International Jazz Award, Musicamdo Jazz &Blues, Savona Jazz, New Orleans Cafè, Grand Visconti Hotel Milan, Hyatt Hotel Chicago. In 2002 he is invited by the President of ISA (Instrumen Society of America), to perform in the prestigious ballroom of the McCormick Center of Chicago.

He  perfomed with : Franco Cerri (g), Renato Sellani (p), Fabrizio Bosso (tr), Michael Bublè (v),  Stefano Bagnoli (dr), Gianni Basso (sax), Massimo Moriconi (b), Riccardo Fioravanti (b), Lino Patruno (g), Riccardo Zegna (p), Massimo Manzi (d), Claudio Filippini (p), Fulvio Albano (sax), Lino Patruno (g), Skip Hadden (dr), Aldo Zunino (b) Luca Velotti (s), Dino Cerruti (b),  Jimmy Villotti (g), Pinuccio Calì (b), John Ramsey (dr), John Melnick (p), Carlo Bellotti (dr), Paolo Gambino (p), Luca Allievi (g), Paolo Favini (s), Andrea Toffanelli (tr), Giovanni Gullino (dr), Giovanni Sanguineti (b).  

Matteo is a proud Member of the Rotaract Club, Il Circolo Giovani, International Jazz Journalist Association (IJJA) and of IAJE.
As a journalist he interviewed artists like Tony Bennett, Freddy Cole, Jane Monehit, Jamie Cullum. He writes fro Jazz Magazine and Millionaire.
In 2002 he attends the Dramatic Art Academy "Sergio Tofano" of Turin, where he studies acting and diction and follows a course of television dubbing. In 1996 he begins to study at a drama school, under Director Leonardo Gazzola, at Milan Theater Laboratory. He remains, with this Group, for 5 years and he directs and acts in a number of theatre works like "The little Prince" of A. de Saint-Exupery, "Othello" of W. Shakspeare, "St. John's smile" of R. Cappuccio. In 2000 he plays, at Verga Theater in Milan, "Murder without reason" of E. Ionesco. He worked, for 4 years, with Maria Teresa Milano, Efisia Brignone in the dramatic monologue based on Uri Orlev's novel "The Island on Bird Street".

Official Discography:
-Just Smile (Philology W 356.2) - Matteo Brancaleoni with Renato Sellani (2006)
-Un sanremese a Londra (Mellophonium Multimedia) – Le jazzy songs di Demo Bruzzone (2006) – Guest with Red Cat Dance Band on “Spring Time”

Press Release:

"I'm sure. Matteo will become one of the greatest" Franco Cerri

"Dazzling, thrilling voice softly inspired by Sinatra" Chicago Tribune

"One of the most talented young jazz singer of our country" JazzItalia.net

"An amazing young talent" Corriere della Sera

“A wonderful, expressive voice and an impressive range.
Brancaleoni touched my tough old heart” Thomas Conrad (JazzTimes, Stereophile)

"Brancaleoni is a mature crooner with a well runned voice" G.Michelone, Musica Jazz

“Brancaleoni is the Italian heir of Sinatra” La Stampa

"The debut album from Matteo Brancaleoni is truly a class act that blends well with the traditions of the great American singers.

Matteo has a charm reminiscent of the days of Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin."

Keith Pawlak, Nelson Riddle Memorial Library, University of Arizona School of Music

“With this record, Brancaleoni proves that he is not just a great crooner, an heir to Sinatra for our time, but a jazz singer of the first rank. If ever there was an artist to include in your repertoire of recordings to experience Just Smile is one of them.”

John Boardman,  All About Jazz

“An exceptional artist” Josè Luis Ajzenmesser, Radio Palermo Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Matteo Brancaleoni is an authentic crooner, who fed on a lot of important voices as well as a great deal of instrumental jazz. He proves here, in his debut album, to be totally part of the history of our music, to love it and respect it with poetic humbleness. His vocal abilities appear in all their shear and majestic beauty, while his legendary partners support him the best way they ever could. A perfect, new introducing for a crooner that's bound to leave his mark... " Paolo Piangiarelli (producer)