Jazzfestival Basel 2023presents:The Opening Night Volkshaus Basel19.4.2023, 20.15h"Funky ItalyMario Biondi & BandOffbeat starts the festival swinging; music for the belly and the legs.a big party with hot soul & funk!Mario Biondi comes from Catania/Sicily and was born in 1971. As the son of a Sicilian singer-songwriter, he sang in various choirs as a child. After experiences in theater and television he moved to Reggio Emilia, where he performed with his own group Mario Bro, and finally to Parma. Together with Chicco Capiozzo and Michele Guidi, he recorded the album Whisky a go-go in 2003, before releasing his debut album Handful of Soul in collaboration with High Five Quintet in 2006. Especially through the single This Is What You Are, the album achieved considerable sales success and conquered the top of the charts.After participating in the tribute album for the late musician Alex Baroni, he made a guest appearance at the Sanremo Festival in 2007. Together with the Duke Orchestra, Biondi released the double live album I Love You More in the same year. In 2008 he was featured with two songs on the new DVD edition of Aristocats. The following year he returned to the Sanremo Festival, where he supported (again as a guest) Karima (newcomer category) in her entry Come in ogni ora. At the end of the year he released his next studio album If, and a year later the live album Yes You.For the animated film Rapunzel New Spoiled, Biondi worked as a voice actor in 2010. In 2011, the double album Due was released, featuring a series of duets with Italian and international stars. In 2013, the musician managed to jump to the top of the charts again with the next studio album Sun. In 2015, in collaboration with Bernard Butler and Dee Dee Bridgewater, among others, Biondi released the studio album Beyond, which became his third number one album.HisIdols include Lou Rawls, of course, Isaac Hayes and also Al Jarreau, who, like Chaka Khan, starred on his legendary 2013 album Sun. It was produced, by the way, by Incognito's Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick, also known to be a lover and advocate of those palatable sounds from the '70s. Biondi presented his penultimate album "Beyond" in a stormily celebrated concert at Kaufleuten Zurich at the end of May 2015, and his latest "Brasil" at the JAZZNOJAZZ Festival 2018.Now finally at Offbeat Festival 23!Door opening: 19:30Start: 20:15End: 22:00Age limit: noneWheelchair spaces: Wheelchair users need a normal ticket, the location is wheelchair accessible. Further information:www.offbeat-concert.ch [jhub)Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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