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Reality and Fantasy (Bonus Track Version)

Raphael Gualazzi

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Raphael Gualazzi's debut album in 2005 gained him some recognition in jazz circles. Its successor, Reality and Fantasy, appeared only six years later, but by then, the situation had drastically altered, as the pianist had won the Young Artist section at the 2011 Sanremo Festival with "Follia D'amore," earned second place at the Eurovision Song Contest with an English version of the same song, and attracted considerable interest in countries such as France and Germany. Reality and Fantasy was composed, produced, and arranged by the retro-looking yet multi-talented Gualazzi, a collection of traditional ragtime, jazz, and soul sung indistinctly in English or Italian in a voice that switches between a croon, a scat, and a guffaw.

Biography

Born: Urbino, Italy

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '00s, '10s

Best-known for re-introducing Italy to the Eurovision Song Contest stage, singer/pianist Raphael Gualazzi is also one of his country's most accomplished jazz-blues musicians. Born in the walled city of Urbino in 1981, his authentic sound is a result of his pianoforte studies at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, his subsequent research of early-1900s ragtime blues and New Orleans jazz, and a love of more contemporary acts like Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, and Ben Harper. In 2005, he released his debut...
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