Joe Fischetti

According to Italian World Beat, "His music is a sort of odd ethnic cartoon, a concrete manga, a melody suspended between Vesuvius and Brazil. The rhythms of bossa nova and samba slip between Neapolitan dark alleys and sunny waterfronts".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5WRKPE0is

Gragnaniello, who was born in the Quartieri Spagnoli, has been making music for a very long time. He starting playing guitar when he was 12 and the first band he formed was called Banchi Nuovi, which was named after the Committee of unemployed people to which he belonged.Gragnaniello is famous in his own right, but some of his best songs are ones that he wrote for others, like Cu’umme, which was recorded by Roberto Murolo and Mia Martini.The multi-talented Gragnaniello is also a composer of musical scores, plays and films. He has also composed songs for some pretty heavy hitters,…

The opening scene of the video is a tribute to Jorit’s painting of Sibilla Cumana. Andrea Tartaglia is a wildly talented artist.  In 2016 he collaborated with Daniele Sepe to produce Le Range Fellon.  For Tartaglia, le range fellon is “a small member of nature who shows his point of view on the mistreatment we reserve for nature.”In 2022, Tartaglia and Sepe released an updated, post-covid reggae version of the song entitled “Il Ritorno de Le Range Fellon.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tw4Wx2ksMQ

Gnut and Alessio Sollo also performed together live in 2019. The show was called Sollo&Gnut - L'orso Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDT7h0ffp7E

This song was part of 5th Studio Album, Ghostwriters, released in 2008. After their 6th album was released in 2011, frontman Francesco Di Bella left the band to pursue a solo career. After producing 4 solo albums, 24 Grana reunited in 2020 to record La Raccolta featuring Clementino.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzP843rX58

We could probably write an entire book on 99 Posse, who are one of the most popular Napulitan bands of all time. In fact, there already is one by Rosario Dello Iacovo entitled Curre Curre Guagliò. 99 Posse have a long and interesting history and their music tends to focus on political and social issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4aVwfumPkk

In her article titled Luca Rossi, "ambassador" of the tammorra in the world for SulSud.it, Sabrino Cozzolino talks about Rossi's career, including:how he shares Campano music with the world;his first album (Pulecenella Love), which was nominated for the Tenco Award;his second album (Greetings from Fireland); andhis book, which became a play.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrlcnOFTmg

Federica Ottombrino and Marilena Vitale (aka Fede 'n' Marlen) are Napulitan artists who write and sing in Italian, Napulitan, French and Spanish. Their songs address migrants, LGBTQ+ rights and human ties. Their second studio album, Terra di Madonne, was released just this week! The title is an explicit reference to Napoli. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeCWEl0BBo

This is a beautiful cover of a classic Portuguese song that is perfectly suited to Simona’s voice.The original version of Oração, which means “Prayer”, was the debut Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964.  It was performed by António Calvário.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CA8FUoDDJM

Luca Caiazzo aka Lucariello is best known for his work on the soundtrack of Gomorrah, but he should also be recognized for the social work he does in Campania. Lucariello is the head of the Palcoscenico della Legalità (Stage of Legality) project for the Crisis Opportunity Onlus (CO2). Within that project was a 4-month writing workshop and sound engineering training course at the Juvenile Penal Institute of Airola in Benevento. Puortame Là Fore feat. Raiz was the end product of this workshop, written in collaboration with the kids at the IPM di Airola. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gw7VD6vppw