Saverio Principini
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Saverio Principini is an Italian-American, chart-topping international producer, and songwriter active in the Los Angeles music scene since 1987.
as a bass player of cult heavy metal band Astaroth. At age 16, he recorded his first record "The Long Loud Silence" for Dutch label Rave-on Records, and toured extensively throughout Europe with the band.
In 1991, he began collaborating with Italian rockstar Vasco Rossi
, who introduced him to such musicians as Vinnie Colaiuta
and Michael Landau
. He also launched collaborations with music legends Slash
and Steve Vai
.
Saverio eventually opened Speakeasy Studios in the Hollywood Hills where international artists Elisa, Negrita, Doyle Bramhall II
, Amaia Montero
, Tiromancino
, and his partner Vasco Rossi
, write and record.
to soul
, world music
to pop
, including a cross-over opera
record with mega-star Gino Vannelli
, where they wrote the song “Canto” for BMG.
From 1991 he has run Sage Studio, an executive production firm that connects European and South American music projects, where he works with Eros Ramazzotti, Diego Torres, Myriam Hernandez, Adriano Celentano, Divididos, Tiziano Ferro, Jovanotti and many more. He also co-produced three songs for the Grammy winning album “Yo Canto” for Laura Pausini.
(Alfred Molina) with composer John Frizzel
sung by soprano Sasha Lazard
. His songs were used for NBC
's Surrender Dorothy
(Diane Keaton
), Marvel
's Dr. Strange
. Saverio also wrote and produced for Fox Family
and wrote cues for The Oprah Winfrey Show
and Dr. Oz and eventually produced the music for the CW
network show "the Search for the next..." for the band The Pussycat Dolls. Overseas, his music can be found in shows like Cesaroni, Medico In Famiglia, and Valley of The Dolls.
with Italian music icon Franco Battiato and Leona Lewis
with Biagio Antonacci which debuted at the top of the charts in Italy. Saverio wrote and produced music with cross over Opera soprano Filippa Giordano
for Sony Mexico.
With engineer Michael Tacci he produced The Tigers
, an LA indie band that appears on the Thrive Records's compilation "His and Hers" of Amanda Scheer, together with such talents as Oasis
, Daft Punk
and Ryan Adams
.
He has worked with international producers such as Humberto Gatica, Pat Leonard, Geoff Westley, Joe Vannelli, Celso Valli, Lee Curreri and more recently Joe Chiccarelli and Claudio Guidetti. Saverio also conducted international music collaborations with John Shanks
, Wyclef Jean
and Sergio Mendez
.
Music and for two years, he has been the music director of Hit Week, a two week live event in New York
and Los Angeles
that showcases some of the best of the Italian musicians in the United States.
His songs "Sto Pensando A Te" and "Manifesto Futurista della Nuova Umanita" that he wrote with Italian living-legend singer Vasco Rossi
both went #1 in Italy and became certified multi-platinum recordings.
Saverio also owns Savana Records in Los Angeles, an indie label originally distributed by Whole Foods
in the States that focuses on the promotion of less exposed music and has several recordings active, including Neo Soul-Reagge singer Amana Melome
, guitarist Fabio Mittino (with the recordings of music of G.I.Gurdjieff-T. DeHartmann) and an eclectic project called SOUP together with drummer Vinnie Colaiuta
and guitarist Marcello Cosenza and guests John Beasley, Chad Fischer, Simone Sello
and Alex Alessandroni, Jr.
Among other ventures in 2007 he launched Rootdown Radio, an internet commercial free radio station.
Saverio Principini is a member of the National Academy of The Recording Arts and Science (NARAS). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and career
Saverio began his musical career in ItalyItaly
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
as a bass player of cult heavy metal band Astaroth. At age 16, he recorded his first record "The Long Loud Silence" for Dutch label Rave-on Records, and toured extensively throughout Europe with the band.
In 1991, he began collaborating with Italian rockstar Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi , also known as Vasco or with the nickname Il Blasco, is an Italian singer-songwriter. During his career, he has published 25 albums and has written over 150 songs, as well as lyrics for other artists...
, who introduced him to such musicians as Vinnie Colaiuta
Vinnie Colaiuta
Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...
and Michael Landau
Michael Landau
Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...
. He also launched collaborations with music legends Slash
Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...
and Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....
.
Saverio eventually opened Speakeasy Studios in the Hollywood Hills where international artists Elisa, Negrita, Doyle Bramhall II
Doyle Bramhall II
Doyle Bramhall II is a guitarist and vocalist in his band Smokestack and was also the second guitarist in Eric Clapton's band from 2004 to 2009.-Discography:with Arc Angels*Arc Angels...
, Amaia Montero
Amaia Montero
Amaia Montero Saldías , also known as the original vocalist of La Oreja de Van Gogh between 1996 and 2007, is a singer/songwriter from Basque Country, Spain. Including her work with the band, Montero has sold more than 7 million albums worldwide.-Background:Amaia Montero is the daughter of José...
, Tiromancino
Tiromancino
Tiromancino is an Italian pop group founded in 1989. It was started by Federico Zampaglione and has released 9 albums. Their music is a subtle blend of folk and electronica...
, and his partner Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi , also known as Vasco or with the nickname Il Blasco, is an Italian singer-songwriter. During his career, he has published 25 albums and has written over 150 songs, as well as lyrics for other artists...
, write and record.
Musical stylings
Saverio's song writing covers a vast musical field from rockRock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
to soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
to pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, including a cross-over opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
record with mega-star Gino Vannelli
Gino Vannelli
Gino Vannelli is an Italian-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and composer.-Early years:Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vannelli is one of three sons born to Russ and Delia Vannelli. Russ, his father, was a big band musician. As a child, Gino's greatest passion was music, and he began playing...
, where they wrote the song “Canto” for BMG.
From 1991 he has run Sage Studio, an executive production firm that connects European and South American music projects, where he works with Eros Ramazzotti, Diego Torres, Myriam Hernandez, Adriano Celentano, Divididos, Tiziano Ferro, Jovanotti and many more. He also co-produced three songs for the Grammy winning album “Yo Canto” for Laura Pausini.
Television and film
Saverio also writes for the big screen as well as TV. He created the title track for Sony-ATV The LodgerThe Lodger (2009 film)
The Lodger is an 2009 mystery/thriller film directed by David Ondaatje and starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis and Simon Baker. It is based on the novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, filmed previously by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944, and as Man in...
(Alfred Molina) with composer John Frizzel
John Frizzel
John Frizzell is an American film and television composer. As a young boy, Frizzell sang soprano in the National Cathedral Choir, the Paris Opera Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Company. However, once he hit puberty, his voice changed...
sung by soprano Sasha Lazard
Sasha Lazard
Dominique "Sasha" Lazard is an American classical crossover singer.Lazard was born in New York and grew up in Paris. She attended Bennington College and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying opera, but after graduation pursued a more electronic-influenced sound inspired by the local...
. His songs were used for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Surrender Dorothy
Surrender Dorothy
"SURRENDER DOROTHY" is a famous special effect used in the movie The Wizard of Oz, which later attained local fame as a graffito in the Washington, D.C metropolitan area.-Appearance in the movie:...
(Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970...
), Marvel
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
's Dr. Strange
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme is a direct-to-DVD & BD animated movie based on the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange. The film was released August 14, 2007 and had its American broadcast premiere on Cartoon Network November 1, 2008....
. Saverio also wrote and produced for Fox Family
ABC Family
ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...
and wrote cues for The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
and Dr. Oz and eventually produced the music for the CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
network show "the Search for the next..." for the band The Pussycat Dolls. Overseas, his music can be found in shows like Cesaroni, Medico In Famiglia, and Valley of The Dolls.
Musical Partnerships
Saverio Principini produced the recordings of the duets of Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna CoilLacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Formed in 1994, the group has had two name changes since being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal and was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music...
with Italian music icon Franco Battiato and Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....
with Biagio Antonacci which debuted at the top of the charts in Italy. Saverio wrote and produced music with cross over Opera soprano Filippa Giordano
Filippa Giordano
Filippa Giordano is an Italian crossover singer.-Biography:Filippa was born in Palermo and she is the youngest of a whole generation of musicians. At the age of nine, she started ballet at the National Academy of Rome...
for Sony Mexico.
With engineer Michael Tacci he produced The Tigers
The Tigers (band)
The Tigers was a four piece rock band from Wellington, New Zealand.The band was formed in 1980, and quickly developed an enviable live reputation, securing performance slots including the Sweetwaters Music Festival while touring the North Island of New Zealand between 1980 and 1981.The single Heart...
, an LA indie band that appears on the Thrive Records's compilation "His and Hers" of Amanda Scheer, together with such talents as Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
, Daft Punk
Daft Punk
Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...
and Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
.
He has worked with international producers such as Humberto Gatica, Pat Leonard, Geoff Westley, Joe Vannelli, Celso Valli, Lee Curreri and more recently Joe Chiccarelli and Claudio Guidetti. Saverio also conducted international music collaborations with John Shanks
John Shanks
John Matthew Shanks is a modern rock writer and Grammy Award–winning producer.Born in New York City, Shanks moved to Los Angeles when he was 17....
, Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country...
and Sergio Mendez
Sergio Méndez
Sergio de Jesús Méndez Cortéz was a football player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.-Club career:Nicknamed el Tabudo, Méndez played for Atlético Marte and Águila....
.
Recent years
In 2011 Saverio has entered a World Wide publishing deal with EMIEMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
Music and for two years, he has been the music director of Hit Week, a two week live event in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
that showcases some of the best of the Italian musicians in the United States.
His songs "Sto Pensando A Te" and "Manifesto Futurista della Nuova Umanita" that he wrote with Italian living-legend singer Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi , also known as Vasco or with the nickname Il Blasco, is an Italian singer-songwriter. During his career, he has published 25 albums and has written over 150 songs, as well as lyrics for other artists...
both went #1 in Italy and became certified multi-platinum recordings.
Saverio also owns Savana Records in Los Angeles, an indie label originally distributed by Whole Foods
Whole foods
Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible, before being consumed. Whole foods typically do not contain added ingredients, such as salt, carbohydrates, or fat. Examples of whole foods include unpolished grains, beans, fruits, vegetables...
in the States that focuses on the promotion of less exposed music and has several recordings active, including Neo Soul-Reagge singer Amana Melome
Amana Melome
Amana Melome is an American and Italian singer and songwriter.Born in Germany but raised around the world, Amana Melome is singer, songwriter and Italian celebrity who sings in Italian, French, German, and English...
, guitarist Fabio Mittino (with the recordings of music of G.I.Gurdjieff-T. DeHartmann) and an eclectic project called SOUP together with drummer Vinnie Colaiuta
Vinnie Colaiuta
Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...
and guitarist Marcello Cosenza and guests John Beasley, Chad Fischer, Simone Sello
Simone Sello
Simone Sello is an Italian born guitarist, music producer, songwriter and music journalist. He is known for his work with the Sanremo Festival Orchestra, Chicanery, Billy Sheehan, Aaron Carter, Disney, Hannah Montana, Vasco Rossi, Amber Lily, and Warren Cuccurullo, both as a producer and...
and Alex Alessandroni, Jr.
Among other ventures in 2007 he launched Rootdown Radio, an internet commercial free radio station.
Saverio Principini is a member of the National Academy of The Recording Arts and Science (NARAS). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.