Roberto Meloni was born in Sardinia, Italy in 1977. He has been performing on the stage since he was four, taking part in many events and contest as Una Voce per Sanremo in 1995. He studied at Foreign Languages University and, after getting graduated he won a scholarship with Socrates project to Riga, Latvia. In february 2004 Roberto took part in the TV talent show Talantu Fabrika, a kind of Latvian Idols, reaching the big final, and performing on the stage with big stars as Raimonds Pauls. Roberto gained popularity in Latvia also because he was the only foreigner to take part in a talent show and he appered in many covers and magazines.
In May 2004 Roberto joined Elizabete Zagorska, a Latvian singer, in the latino duet Elizabet e Roberto. They recorded 13 new songs and they released in march 2008 their CD called Viva el Amor. Elizabet e Roberto tooka part in many events in Lithuania, Estonia and they shoot two videoclips, one in the wonderful Roberto’s motherland Sardinia for the song Il Ballo del Lettone, and one in Egypt at Domina Coral Bay for the song Viva el amor, released both in Italian and Russian languages.
In february 2007 Roberto Meloni is one of the stars of the Latvian TV program Strictly come Dancing, together with Latvian professional dancer and number 13th in world rank Roberto shows his abilities of show man and dancer.
In february 2007 Roberto Meloni joined the group Bonaparti.lv to win Latvian Eurovision selection with the ballad Questa Notte. In may 2007 Bonaparti.lv took part in the big ESC final held in Helsinki, reaching the 16th place among 43 countries.
From October till December 2007, Roberto Meloni became one of the hosts of Latvian TV program Nakts Sarrunas (Night Chats), where he interviews popular Latvian people as politicians, artists, about different topics.
In December 2007 Roberto Meloni is one of the actors in the musicals West Side Stories and Les Miserables, that were a success of public and critics.
From January till June 2008 Roberto Meloni becomes the host of the TV program Sapni Piepildas (Dreams come true), where he realizes the dreams of Latvian children.
In February 2008 Roberto Meloni participates and wins for the second year in a row (first time for an artist in Latvia) Latvian Eurovison selection with the group Pirates of the Sea, getting also the record of votes in Latvian semifinal (12.000 votes). In may 2008 Pirates of the Sea enter to the big final in Belgrade, reaching the 11th place among 43 countries. Pirates of the Sea were awarded by BBC as the best stage costume dressed in the whole ESC. In July 2008 Pirates of the Sea took part in Slaviansky Bazar, an International contest held in Vitepsks, Bielorussia. They performed in Sweden, Lithuania and in October 2008 they have been invited as guests in the popular RAI Uno TV program Carramba che Fortuna, hosted by the world wide popular star Raffaella Carra’ .
In December 2008 Roberto created the group „Stelle di Natale”, a project that includes Roberto Meloni, Aleksandra Kurusova (the pirate girl), Laura Kosite (who dacend with Roberto in „Strictly come Dancing”) and the Latvian singer Ralfs Rubenis. The project recorded the song Pasca E Nadale, written by Claudio Carente and translated into Latvian as Viss ies uz labu with charity aim to get founds for Children Hospital Music Therapy Room. The song has been on the chart till 9th place on Latvian Airplay top 50.
In February 2009 has been on Sardinian popular TV programs Anninnora and Ammentos where he performed live Questa Notte.
In April 2009 Roberto and his group Pirates of the Sea have been performing for three weeks in Malta, at Splash and Fun Aqua Park. Roberto recorded his new single „Love me or leave me”, written by Malta popular artist Claudia Faniello and he is one of the actors of the theatre piece „Kailie Briezi”, a Latvian version of Full Monty, that is going to take part in many Latvian cities starting from May 2009.
In July 2009 Roberto took part in Cesme International Festival, performing his song Sei Solo Tu.
After representing Latvia at Eurovision Song Contests in 2007 with the pop tenor group Bonaparti.lv and in 2008 as one of the Pirates of the Sea, Roberto Meloni represented for the first time his own country, Italy, at Cesme international festival with the song Sei solo tu (It' s only you).
The event wich took place in the beautiful Turkish city of Cesme last June and saw Johanna, this year's Icelandic representative with the song Is it true? and Aysel the Azeri singer who represented Azerbaijan with Arash in Moscow and the Turkish megastar Tarkan.
With several shows this summer with performances throughout Latvia, Roberto is also part of the cast of a theatre play along with Alexandra Kurusova (Pirates of the Sea, 2008) and Lauris Reiniks (Fly, 2003) and he has been chosen for the Russian version of the theatre play Full Monty.
In September 2009 Roberto Meloni took part in Golden Stag, International Festival that takes place in Brasov, Romania singing his song Sei Solo Tu and the Rumanian hit Say Something by Laurentiu Cazan.
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