Vincenzo Thoma is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 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...

 singer songwriter.

History

Vincenzo Thoma was born in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, Italy

Italy

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. Charmed by Montreal's multicultural character, he decided to make it his home. He moved in 1994 and instantly became popular not only for his powerful and versatile voice but also for his unique style of songwriting.

His numerous musical influences give way to a unique style combining pop with a touch of classical music and his Latin fire to create a whole new sound.

Many popular artists have benefited from Thoma's unique brand of songwriting, including Lara Fabian

Lara Fabian

Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....

 ("J'ai Zappé" on her platinum selling album Pure

Pure (Lara Fabian album)

Lara Fabian's 1996 album Pure, was a two million-selling album ,which reached Diamond status in France, from which came the anti-homophobia anthem "La Différence." The album went platinum in less than two weeks...

) Roch Voisine

Roch Voisine

Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host...

 ("Comme" on the album Chaque feu), Chimène Badi

Chimène Badi

-Early life:Chimène Badi was born in Melun, in the Paris suburbs but she spent her entire childhood in the south-west of France, growing up in Villeneuve-sur-Lot with her parents, Chérifa and Mohammed, her sister, Déborah, and her brother, Karim...

, Francesca Gagnon

Francesca Gagnon

Francesca Gagnon is a Canadian singer and theatre actress featured in Cirque du Soleil's Alegría and Midnight Sun...

 and René Duperé

René Dupéré

René Dupéré is a Québécois composer from Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada.- Biography :Dupéré is best known as the composer and arranger of music for contemporary circus productions by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil...

 (of Cirque du Soleil), Mia Martini

Mia Martini

Mia Martini was an Italian singer.-Early life:Born Domenica Bertè in 1947 in Bagnara Calabra , she moved to Rome with her sister and her friend Renato Zero.-Career:She recorded her first records as Mimì Berté, but she soon decided to change her name to Mia...

, Gigi Finizio, Patrick Fiori, 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...

 (who won second place at the Sanremo Festival in 1999 with "Un giorno in piu'", music written by Vincenzo Thoma and Stefano Galante) and many more.

In 1987, Vincenzo sang songs for the films Faceless

Faceless (film)

Faceless is a 1988 French slasher film directed by Jesús Franco. The film is about Dr. Flamand and his assistant Nathalie who lure unsuspecting victims to use their skin to perform plastic surgery on the doctor's disfigured sister - a plot reminiscent of Franco's first film, Gritos en la noche...

 and Les Nouveaux Tricheurs which were written by Romano Musumarra.In 1992 he was the voice of Aladdin singing in the Italian A Whole New World

A Whole New World

"A Whole New World" is the Oscar winning featured pop single from the soundtrack to the 1992 Disney film Aladdin. It was composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Tim Rice. The song is a ballad between the primary characters Aladdin and Jasmine about the new world they are going to discover together....

 the adaptation of Walt Disney's movie Aladdin. In 1993 he was part of the cast of the musical Beati Voi with actor comedian Enrico Montesano

Enrico Montesano

Enrico Montesano, born in Rome, Italy on 7 June 1945, is a popular actor for theater and cinema in Italy, as well as a showman. He starred in the 1977 film Pane, burro e marmellata and the 1978 film Le braghe del padrone, both times alongside Adolfo Celi.-Career:Montesano comes from a family...

 as a soloist and toured all the major Italian cities.

In 1999 the album Sognero was released in Canada, Recorded between Montreal and Rome. There are ten songs composed, arranged and produced by Vincenzo Thoma and Stefano Galante and three remakes; two are classic songs such as "Nessun Dorma

Nessun dorma

Nessun dorma is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera. It is sung by Calaf, il principe ignoto , who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot...

" and "'O Sole Mio

'O Sole Mio

"O sole mio" is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the melody was composed by Eduardo di Capua. Though there are versions in other languages, "'O sole mio" is usually sung in the original Neapolitan language...

" and the famous "Volare

Volare (song)

"Nel blu dipinto di blu" , popularly known as "Volare" , is Domenico Modugno's signature song....

", all deconstructed and re-arranged.

His last CD Romantico is a project co-produced with Rick Allison

Rick Allison

Rick Allison is a Belgian musician.Of Irish and Russian descent, he became bilingual. His mother was an amateur pianist and his father had international music interests. At the age of 15, Allison started a band and gradually performed more and more gigs in clubs around Brussels...

 and Stefano Galante.
Vincenzo was able to obtain the approvals for Italian lyrics he wrote on thirteen Anglophone songs.

Vincenzo Thoma recorded a unique album of huge classic hits in Italian, a language in which these songs have never been recorded before. Artists like Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

, Sting, Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

, George Michael

George Michael

George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...

 for the first single off the album : Io non ballerò - Careless Whisper

Careless Whisper

"Careless Whisper" is a 1984 single by George Michael , released by Epic Records in the UK, Japan, and other countries; and by Columbia Records in North America. The song was George Michael's first solo single although he was still performing in Wham! at the time...

, Elton John

Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

 and Diane Warren

Diane Warren

Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...

 all gave the OK for him to use his lyrics.

Compilation inclusions

• Aladino (Voice of Italian version of "Aladin", Walt Disney Productions, 1992)