Paolo Nutini

Infobox musical artist
Name = Paolo Nutini


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Paolo Giovanni Nutini
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Origin = Paisley, Scotland
Instrument = Vocal, guitar
Genre = Blue-eyed soul
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Years_active = 2005–present
Label = Atlantic
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URL = http://www.paolonutini.com/

Paolo Giovanni Nutini (born 9 January 1987) 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 has been in Scotland for four generations.

Musical career

Paolo Nutini was taught singing by Avril McCusker for three and half years, but 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 recognised 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 Dome and Dick from the Dongues, whom he mentions as great influences on his later career, especially Dick's singing, and working as a studio hand at Glasgow's Park Lane Studio.

He has often collaborated with musician Sam Willetts and the hit single 'New Shoes' was written about Sam after he bought Paolo a pair of shoes for his birthday.

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. "Daily Record" journalist John Dingwall saw him performing at the Queen Margaret Union, and invited him to appear live on BBC Radio Scotland. Only 17, he moved to London and performed regularly at The Bedford pub in Balham while still legally too young to drink alcohol himself. Other radio and live appearances followed, including two live acoustic spots on Radio London, The Hard Rock Cafe, and support slots for Amy Winehouse and KT Tunstall.

Throughout 2006 he played a number of sold-out concerts in the UK and performed at a wide variety of venues worldwide, including King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, a TV appearance on Later with Jools Holland, Carnegie Hall in New York, The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Wireless Festival, Oxegen and T in the Park. He supported the Rolling Stones in Vienna and was invited to appear with them again at the Don Valley Stadium in August 2006. He was also booked to appear at the V Festival and The Austin City Limits Music Festival, Texas later in 2006, with a European tour in the autumn. In May 2006, he also played at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee.

On Hogmanay 2006, Paolo appeared on BBC Scotland's Hogmanay Live celebrations, after the official celebrations in Princes Street Gardens were cancelled at short notice due to abysmal weather. He performed several songs in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle for the TV audience with little or no rehearsal.

On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, Paolo performed in a concert that was streamed live via [http://msnpresents.msn.com/PaoloNutini/artist.aspx?mkt=en-gb/ MSN Music] .

Paolo is a big Celtic F.C. supporter and was criticised by fans for allegedly coming on stage seemingly drunk after celebrating Celtic's title win in April 2007. This has been vigorously denied by Paolo himself and his management, who said that Paolo was just mumbling as he sang, and that the set was subject to several technical problems that made him difficult to hear.

Paolo performed at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007 on the famous Pyramid Stage on the second day of the event. Nutini also performed at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium on July 7, 2007 with his set including a cover of Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World. He performed the following day at T in the Park, in Scotland. [ BBC Scotland: T in the Park [http://www.bbc.co.uk/tinthepark/artists/paolo_nutini] ]

Scottish independent TV company Volt MediaFix are currently making a one-off special documentary on Paolo's recent US tour. The program, for the BBC, was scheduled for broadcast on BBC2, 10pm, Thursday 7th June throughout Scotland and on Sky channel 990 throughout the rest of the UK.

His song 'Last Request' featured at the end of the Scrubs episode My Words of Wisdom from season 6.

His song 'Million Faces' was featured at the end of the Grey's Anatomy episode 'Testing 1-2-3' from Season 3 and is on the Volume 3 Soundtrack of the show.

His song 'Rewind' was also played at the end of episode 'Broken Home' in season 5. His song 'Jenny, Don't Be Hasty' was also featured on another member of the CSI franchise when it was played on the Season 3 finale episode of , 'Snow Day'.

His song 'New Shoes' was featured in The Jane Austen Book Club and in a TV ad for Puma AG during summer 2008.

On July 7, 2007 he performed Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World at Live Earth

On September 17, Paolo performed on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno performing the song Last Request.

In September 2007, Paolo recorded a short radio show with imeem.com where he listed his top 10 favourite tracks and the reasons behind his choices. [ Paulo Introduces His Top Ten Tunes [http://paolonutini.imeem.com/playlist/u5XKGAbs/paolo_nutinis_artist_guest_playlist_music_playlist/ ] ]

In October 2007, Paolo performed for the annual Voodoo Fest held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 2008, Paolo's music will also be featured in a movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel .

Recording history

Paolo Nutini 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 next single "Last Request" which was released on 4 July 2006 and charted at #5 in the official UK charts. In the video for "Last Request", Nutini plays the part of a robber - though this is not revealed until the end. Nutini's third single, "Jenny Don't Be Hasty", was released on 25 September 2006 and got to #20 on the UK Singles Chart."Rewind" was Nutini's fourth single. It was released on 4 December 2006, and reached #27 in the UK.

His debut album "These Streets", produced by Ken Nelson (Coldplay/Gomez), was released on 17 July 2006 and immediately entered the UK album charts at #3. Many of the songs on the album, including "Last Request" and "Rewind", were inspired by a turbulent relationship with his current girlfriend, Teri Brogan, and "Jenny Don't Be Hasty" is a true story about encounters with an older woman.These Streets, as Paolo himself puts it on his official website, he states, "The album is a little glimpse of some of the experiences I have been through in the last three years".

Paolo has said that he will be releasing a new album sometime around November 2008.

Discography

Albums

* "These Streets" - 17th July 2006 (Atlantic) UK #3 U.S. #48

Singles

Charity

On 24 July, 2007, Paolo was awarded The Golden St. Christopher medal by the city of Barga in Italy, the highest honour the city can give, to celebrate his extraordinary contributions to Barga and its people. Other artists to receive this award include the band 'Keane'.

References

External links

Official

* [http://www.paolonutini.com/ Official Paolo Nutini website]
*MySpace|paolonutini|Paolo Nutini

Others

* [http://www.ruid.com/photo_album/2633/paolo_nutini Paolo Nutini Photo Gallery]
* [http://www.ilikemusic.com/interviews/Paolo_Nutini_interview-2713/ Interview on ilikemusic.com]
* [http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/lo/features/7023916.html Article in The Evening Times July 18 2006]
* [http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_objectid=17482743%26method=full%26siteid=50082-name_page.html Live Review Cardiff University 2006]
* [http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/Pogo-viech/Dresden/?action=view&current=100_1136.jpgPaolo Nutini live (9th June 2007)]
* [http://www.barganews.com/daily/2006/08/15/paolo-nutini-concert/ Article in barganews Aug 15 2006 ]
* [http://paolonutini.imeem.com/playlist/u5XKGAbs/paolo_nutinis_artist_guest_playlist_music_playlist/ Paulo Nutini introduces his favourite records]
* [http://www.paolonutini.com/media/ Video and audio clips (Windows media/Realplayer)]
* [http://www.stv.tv/out/showArticle.jsp?source=opencms&articleId=/out/music/latestnews/Exclusive_Paolo_Nutini_interview/ Paolo Nutini video interview on stv.tv]
* [http://www.movmnt.com/paolo-nutini_00164.html Intimate interview with Paolo Nutini, june 2007, movmnt magazine]
* [http://www.undercover.com.au/Video.aspx?channel=Music+Interviews&clipid=879930 Undercover video interview with Paolo Nutini April 2007]
* [http://www.barganews.com/2007/07/24/san-cristoforo-patrono-di-barga/ Paolo was awarded the Golden St Christopher medal by the city of Barga Italy July 2007 ]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBLZV7vs2Ek Paolo at premiere of The Who: Journey - London Nov 4 ]
* [http://www.pluginmusic.com/features.php?page=paolonutini Paolo Nutini And The Importance Of Being Rested] Feature Article, October 2007. PlugInMusic.com
* [http://chambreavecvie.com/wordpress/?p=102 Blog fiction's episode with Paolo Nutini]