CURRICULUM VITAE
Lorenzo Lepore: Born in 1997 in Rome, in 2018 Lorenzo released his first EP, Flebo, and began attending Officina Pasolini. In 2021 he signed with Tony Pujia's T-Recs record label and that same year was one of Musicultura's four winners with the song Futuro, winning the Best Lyrics Award. This is where the FuTour began, with 20 concerts throughout Italy ending on October 30 with a sold-out concert at Wishlist in Rome. In 2022 he won the Amnesty International Voices for Freedom Award with Finally Home and was runner-up at the Bertoli and De Andrè awards with Meglio così. In 2023 he won the Botteghe d'autore award, the Lauzi Prize and the Ciampi Prize. In recent years he has performed on a number of important Italian stages, such as Auditorium Parco della musica, Palatlantico and Friday for Future in Rome, took part in Sicily's Indiegeno fest, MEI in Faenza and Meeting of the Sea in Camerota. The various TV shows he has taken part in include Rai 1's Epiphany Concert, La Versione di Fiorella on Rai3, Luca Barbarossa's Radio2 Social Club and Generation z on Rai 2. On Sept. 27, 2023, he released his first album Fuori Onda, an authentic collection of the most significant musical experiences in his artistic journey, at Monk in Rome.
LucaNint: Stage name of Luca Valenti, a singer-songwriter and guitarist who graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome in jazz guitar with a thesis entitled The stylistic and harmonic influence of jazz music on Italian songwriting. He continued his guitar studies with Fabio Zeppetella, Bruno Marinucci and Phil Palmer (Dire Straits). In 2018 an original poem 'Wayfarer' led to him being awarded a diploma of merit for the publication of the book CET Scuola autori di Mogol 2018 published by Aletti Editore for the poetry contest of the publishing house of the same name.
That same year he was invited by Alessandro Portelli to sing at a conference presenting the book Bob Dylan, Rain and Poison (by Alessandro Portelli) with the famous song A Hard rain 's gonna fall. In 2022, accompanied by his backing group Perquisa, he debuted with his own artistic project on the Rome scene, achieving his first sold-out concert as an independent singer-songwriter at Le Mura on June 6 2022. In July 2022 he performed at the Eur Social Park in Rome as the winning artist in the emerging music contest RadioSonica LiveShow. In September 2022 he won first place with +650 votes as one of 10 musicians selected by the public and jury of Spaghetti Unplugged to open Dargen D'amico's concert at Castello di Santa Severa on 8 September 2022. Starting in 2022 he toured Italy to promote his music both busking at major squares and performing alongside other emerging musicians. He has performed in many venues on the national emerging scene, both accompanied by Perquisa and in acoustic solo. His most notable concerts include Wishlist Club (Rome) with +120 tickets sold as an independent artist, Pierrot Le Fou (Rome), Alcazar (Rome) for SpaghettiUnplugged, Asino che vola (Rome), Teatro Arciliuto (Rome), ArciBellezza (Milan), (MilanoCantautori), Blackstar (Ferrara), LaRedazione, Pascal's Auditorium and many others around Italy. In September 2023, he performed at the Cremona Musica International Exhibitions and Festival in the emerging musician New Sounds of Acoustic Music finals in the songwriter-guitarist category. Since 2023 he has been one of the new guest artists at the I giovani del Folkstudio songwriting event organized by Luigi Grechi and Andrea Carpi at the Asino che vola in Rome. In 2024 he composed and produced the soundtrack accompanying the Briganti Eleganti exhibition, together with Lorenzo Lepore and Tony Pujia, based on an idea by Stefano Dominella, Bonaria Giordani Aragno and Guillermo Mariotto. The exhibition opened on March 26 in Rome at the MAXXI museum in conjunction with Netflix and Gattinoni under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and the Lazio Region, and will then continue worldwide. He won the audience award for his soundtrack for the short film Ants at the 14th edition of Lo Spiraglio Film Festival organized by ASL ROMA 1, promoting mental health through cinema. His recording debut as an independent artist is in the works.
