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Paolo's musical favorites are diverse, from Ray Charles to Johnny Cash to Van Morrison to the Drifters to John Martyn to the Corries, Motown and Atlantic Soul, now that's diverse! And the list goes on and on. Although Paolo was never reluctant about admitting to the fact that he is not rock and roll, he was still invited to sing with the Rolling Stones twice already.This coming December, he will be supporting the great rock legend, Led Zeppelin to celebrate the late Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic records.
Movies
Paolo's original song REWIND will be on the Soundtrack for the movie:
P.S. I love you, the album is due out December 4, 2007. Presale of the album is going on now at Amazon.com The movie Jane Austen Book club also featured the upbeat song, NEW SHOES.
Television
The Bridge of Orchy from the North (Beautiful!)
Paolo's songs have been featured in a lot of Television shows here in America. Grey's Anatomy: Million Faces, CSI Miami: Rewind, Smallville: Last Request, Men in Trees: New Shoes, One Tree Hill: Last Request
Paolo stands 5 feet and 8 1/2 inches. He has appeared on many shows such as Live Earth, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, TRL Italy, and the Album Chart Show. On his 18th birthday, he went to Liverpool to work on his debut album with Atlantic Records. When he was 16, Paolo quit school in Glasgow and moved to London. Paolo is from Paisley, Scotland. Paolo's fourth song from his album is New Shoes. He was nominated for a 2007 Brit award for Best British Male but lost out to James Morrison. In 2006 he supported The Rolling Stones on their tour in Vienna they were so impressed by him that he was invited to appear with them at the Don Valley Stadium in August 2006. Paolo worked as a studio hand at Glasgow's Park Lane Studio. As part of Radio 1's "Back to School Week" in January, Paolo went to the Nuneaton School and was expected to dissect a pig's lung which caused him to nearly throw up. Paolo first started singing as a child in his school choir. His debut single Last Request is about the rocky relationship he has with his current girlfriend. Paolo has a tattoo of Texas stars around his wrist. Nutini had Ken Nelson, producer of famous band Coldplay, work on his debut album. Before he became a well-known singer, he toured with his friends band as a roadie and T-Shirt Vendor. He orginally wanted to be a footballer and be in the positon of goalkeeper, but changed his mind and switched to music. Paolo's musical role models are Van Morrison, Ray Charles and The Drifters among others. Paolo's album went gold and then platinum on its release. Nutini's debut album These Streets entered the chart at number 3 in July 2006. Paolo's third single Rewind reached chart position number 27 in September 2006. Paolo's second single Jenny Don't Be Hasty reached number 20 in 2006 Paolo's family have lived in Scotland for the last four generations. He was signed to the record label Atlantic Records in 2005. Paolo's favourite football team is Celtic F.C. He has been nominated at the 2007 Brit Awards for Best British Male. Paolo's debut single the beautiful and moving Last Request reached chart number 5 in July 2006. Nutini's debut album These Streets was released in 2006. Paolo refers passionately to his late Grandfather as Nonno. Paolo comes from a non-showbiz background, his parents own a fish and chip shop in his home town of Paisley called the Castelvecchi after his great grandfather. Paolo based his song Jenny Don't Be Hasty on a woman who dumped him after she found out he was younger then he had told her. Paolo is half-Italian and half-Scottish. He had just successfully concluded a North American tour which catapulted him into a household name here in the U.S.
Paolo Nutini: Warner Music Australia Artist
LIKE MANY OF THE GREAT SINGERS, Paolo Nutini doesn't speak in words the way he sings in song. Engage him in conversation, and you'll be greeted with a hefty Scottish brogue, his accent thick enough to spread on bread. But when he sings, something rather miraculous happens: the accent remains (Paolo isn't one of those vocalists who turns American when faced with a microphone), but his voice lifts, lightens and becomes exquisitely mellifluous. Listen to the ribald Jenny Don't Be Hasty from his forthcoming debut album, These Streets, and his vocal cords, a mixture of gravel and honey, bring to mind a young Joe Cocker fronting The Faces. Fair enough, you'd think, if the man was middle-aged, nicotine-addled, and fighting both a weight problem and a lifelong inability to maintain relationships with women, but Paolo Nutini is none of these things. He is Scottish, and just 19 years old. God alone knows where the voice comes from, then, but one thing is already abundantly clear: this boy's a natural.
"Och, I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons," he says - and what he says next brings slight colour to his cheeks, "but I did sing in the school choir for a while. That was tough. As you can imagine, not a whole lot of guys take to singing in a place like Paisley, and it must be said that there was never a particularly big queue to join the choir."
But there were some benefits to being part of it, not least for a young man with Italian blood running through his Scottish veins: "Basically, it was me surrounded by all these girls. That was fun."
While the choir's choice of songs were hardly firm favourites of Paolo's, one teacher, with a sideline in jazz piano, quickly spotted his prodigious talent, and together they collaborated on more soulful songs.
"Initially, I'd wanted to be a football player," he confesses, "specifically a goalkeeper. But the more I sang, the more I realised it was just something I could do, almost without effort. I was hardly going to walk away from that, was I?"
By 16, he was on the road with his friends band, a short lived Glasgow indie act. Paolo acted as part-time roadie for them: he'd sell the band's T-shirts at tour venues, and get on stage as the support. Music was clearly his abiding love, but at this stage in his early life, he was already staring down the barrel of a familial tradition from which there seemed little escape.
“I always thought I would carry on in the family business in the chippy” But destiny was to intervene here, in a most unlikely manner.
"You remember David Sneddon, right?" he says.
David Sneddon, of course, was the winner of the BBC's inaugural Fame Academy four years ago. The rather earnest singer-songwriter was from Paisley, and so his triumph on the show was very much a big deal back home. For his anticipated return from the bright lights of Television Centre, the local council had booked out the town hall for his first proper concert. But Sneddon, in the way of pop stars, was delayed on his journey back, and the audience was getting restless. A local radio presenter, in the way of local radio presenters, then bounded on stage and held an impromptu pop quiz, the winner of which would get to sing a couple of songs to the crowd. Paolo, almost in spite of himself, won.
"Initially, I was like, no way am I going up there," he says. But his girlfriend, who had dragged him along to the concert in the first place, insisted otherwise. And so there he stood, facing his very first audience. Seconds ticked by and then, finally, he let loose with that voice that, by rights, should belong to someone else entirely. The crowd went wild, and in the audience was the man who would go on to become Paolo's manager.
"And shortly after, I was moving to London to become a singer, and to record an album," he says, still bewildered at this unexpected turn of events. "Of course, I told my dad I'd stay and do what was expected, but he wouldn't hear of it."
The chips and Mars bars would have to be deep-fried without him. But the chip shop’s loss was very clearly music's gain.
FOUR YEARS ON, and Paolo Nutini arrives on the scene as a fully fledged, fully formed artist. His album, These Streets, sounds nothing like a debut should sound. It is rounded and mature, reigned in and robust, and oozes both a subtle poise and a very determined lyrical kick. He sounds like he has been a songwriter for several lifetimes already, and he sings with the welly of a young Joe Cocker fronting The Faces, or like an old Motown troubadour with his heart on his sleeve and sex on his mind.
"Basically, the album is an autobiographical journey, a diary if you like, of my last three years," he says.
It follows his departure from his beloved Paisley to his arrival in the sprawling London (with the title track's aching lament, "Where it takes you about an hour to cross the road/Just to stumble across another poor old soul"), to his experience with women. Rewind, for example, concerns his first sexual experience at the age of 16 ("When I kissed you in the hallway and took you straight to bed"), to Last Request's pleading for "one last time" before he and his girlfriend split up. And then there’s the aforementioned Jenny Don't Be Hasty, about an older woman he met last year in London's 12 Bar.
"She was 23, see, so I told her I was 22 - and she believed me," he grins. "In fact, I was 18."
Things were going well, the sex was terrific, but three weeks down the line he decided to come clean. Imagining the scenario before it happened, Paolo was convinced they would laugh about it, have a couple of drinks and then tumble into bed. It didn't quite turn out that way.
"She told me to fuck off, to get out of her face," he laughs. "A few days later, I got a text from her, confirming my dismissal. I haven't seen her since."
Sexual ruminations aside, he does emotional bruising beautifully, too. The closing Alloway Grove, for example, is about returning home to Paisley wondering whether his girlfriend has been unfaithful while he was away ("Has she been naked in her room since I've been gone?"), while Autumn, perhaps the album's most poignant moment, concerns his late grandfather.
"He was a big music lover, my Nonno. He loved boogie woogie piano, he adored opera, and it was him that really encouraged me to sing. He always wanted somebody in the family to make music their living. He's not around to see it, unfortunately, but I'm doing just what he wanted, and I'm doing it in his honour."
HE MAY STILL ostensibly be a new name, but Paolo has been on the circuit for almost half a decade now. Consequently, this young man already has quite a fanbase. His just-completed UK tour, for instance, was all sold out. His debut single Last Request has been picking up plays on national and regional radio stations along with video channels two months before its official release. And he is already scheduled to perform on Parkinson, at which point, we can safely assume, Paolo Nutini will no longer be Britain's best kept secret, but an emergent, bonafide star in his own right, universally hailed the best new singer in the country.
"Everything that has happened to me so far has been really good, really fluent," he says. "There's been a few bumps along the way, sure, but nothing fatal. I feel in a good spot right now, and all I want is for enough people to identify with my songs so I can keep on singing them. I like to think they’re worth hearing."
He's not wrong.
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PAOLO GIOVANNI NUTINI was born on January 9, 1987. He is a Scottish singer/songwriter from Paisley. His father is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany and his mother is Scottish, although his father's family have been in Scotland for four generations. Paolo, who has no formal musical training, was expecting to follow his father into the family fish and chip shop business. He was first encouraged to sing by his music-loving grandfather Jackie and a teacher at his school who recognized his talent. He left school to work as a roadie and to sell t-shirts for Speedway and spent three years learning the music business, performing live, alone and with a band, and working as a studio hand at Glasgow's Park Lane Studio.
His big chance came when he attended a concert for David Sneddon's return to his home town of Paisley at the beginning of 2003. Sneddon was delayed, and as the winner of an impromptu pop quiz, Nutini was given the chance to perform a couple of songs on stage during the wait. The favourable reaction of the crowd impressed another member of the audience, who offered to become his manager.
Paolo was signed to Atlantic Records in May 2005, shortly after his 18th birthday. He released his first single "These Streets" as a free download in May 2006, this was then followed by his first single "Last Request" which was released on 4 July 2006 and charted at 5 in the official UK charts. (For more Paolo biography, please go to WIKIPEDIA.COM)
Who I'd like to meet: Hello! This space is created because of our tremendous love and support for a very talented singer and his group of musicians that have changed MUSIC forever --- We are Paolo Nutini fans here in the U.S., who have come together so we can discuss the music, promote events and discover new fans here and abroad for our beloved Scots. Although he's just begun his career, Paolo's music has touched so many lives because of his tantalizing melodies and haunting lyrics, and yet, he does not have a specific genre of music. It is fair to say, all because there is no one quite like him and there is nothing quite like his music. He might be at such a tender age of twenty (going on twenty one) but he writes with such a passion that can be compared to that of someone who's gone through so much in his life. His delivery of any song, is so heart wrenching that it permeates your very core. There is still so much to know and so much to be learned about Paolo Nutini. If you have not heard his music, I invite you to listen to the music provided here, and watch the videos that have been generously provided by the U.S fans who were lucky enough to have seen him perform live this past summer and fall. As we are all awaiting his return to our shores, let us celebrate this wonderful, talented man. Cheers and Much LOVE!
a big hello to all you poalo fans,my name is eddie harrison and i had the pleasure of playing guitar on poalos first album,and i cannot wait to hear the one he is working on at the moment.love to you all from liverpool.
I doubt I'll get to Vegas, but I do have tickets to the San Diego show! Woot Woot. Waiting on more shows to be annouced - or I may just book Vegas too.
Hi Claire! Thanks for stopping by! Everything is good here thanks, I hope you're ok there too. Lucky you, going to see Paolo in Vegas. I wish he'd come back here to England and especially London.... seems like he hasn't been here for ages! Take Care Dawn x
So far, I'm only planning on seeing them when they open for Dave Matthews in CT on June 14th. I'm still hoping they'll add some headlining shows! Are you headed to Vegas?
Paolo's songs have been featured in a lot of Television shows here in America. Grey's Anatomy: Million Faces, CSI Miami: Rewind, Smallville: Last Request, Men in Trees: New Shoes, One Tree Hill: Last Request
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PAOLO GIOVANNI NUTINI was born on January 9, 1987. He is a Scottish singer/songwriter from Paisley. His father is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany and his mother is Scottish, although his father's family have been in Scotland for four generations. Paolo, who has no formal musical training, was expecting to follow his father into the family fish and chip shop business. He was first encouraged to sing by his music-loving grandfather Jackie and a teacher at his school who recognized his talent. He left school to work as a roadie and to sell t-shirts for Speedway and spent three years learning the music business, performing live, alone and with a band, and working as a studio hand at Glasgow's Park Lane Studio.
His big chance came when he attended a concert for David Sneddon's return to his home town of Paisley at the beginning of 2003. Sneddon was delayed, and as the winner of an impromptu pop quiz, Nutini was given the chance to perform a couple of songs on stage during the wait. The favourable reaction of the crowd impressed another member of the audience, who offered to become his manager.
Paolo was signed to Atlantic Records in May 2005, shortly after his 18th birthday. He released his first single "These Streets" as a free download in May 2006, this was then followed by his first single "Last Request" which was released on 4 July 2006 and charted at 5 in the official UK charts. (For more Paolo biography, please go to WIKIPEDIA.COM)
