NICOLA PERUCH​

musician, session man, arranger

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Nicola began his career as a professional musician very early, already at 14 he was on tour with Grazia Di Michele. His activity as a session musician continued with other important names in the Italian music scene such as Alex Baroni, Funky Company, Ladri di Biciclette, Mietta, Marcello Pieri, until 2002 when he became part of the first important international project with the European tour of Terence Trent D'Arby. He grew professionally playing a lot of different music in the most disparate situations, from small clubs and social centers, to large stadiums, sports halls and festivals. In 2003, after the tour with Cesare Cremonini (with whom he also collaborates in the studio), the first important works on television arrived. In the following years, Nicola will take part in many RAI productions all signed by Bibi Ballandi with the role of keyboard programmer: Panariello (2004), Celentano (2005 Rockpolitik), Carra' (2006), Music Farm (2005). On these occasions he had the opportunity to play with artists of the caliber of: Santana, Patty Smith, Dionne Warwick, Claudio Baglioni, Renato Zero, Ligabue, Biagio Antonacci, Ben Harper, Jovanotti, Poul Anka, Tiziano Ferro, Irene Grandi, Elisa, Giorgia, Temptations, Sister Sledge, Jamie Cullum, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti, and many other Italian artists and guests on various television shows. In September 2011 Zucchero's Chocabeck World Tour began and continued until July 2012. In 2013 he will be part of Zucchero's world tour which will start in Australia and then touch Europe, North America and South America. In 2015 he is on tour with Tiziano Ferro first in stadiums, then in Italian and European arenas. A live DVD of the tour is published. In 2016 he is a session man in the studio for Fiorella Mannoia. He begins a new work cycle with Zucchero that will take him on tour from August 2016 to August 2018 for 190 concerts around the world. In the spring of 2018 he participates in the creation of the album The Crossing by Alejandro Escovedo produced by Braian Deck and Antonio Gramentieri. The album is taken on tour in the USA for two periods of two months in 2018 and 2019. He had been involved by Antonio Gramentieri himself as a session man for the album Delone dei Sacri Cuori and for the album Don Antonio by Antonio Gramentieri. Also in the spring of 2018 he records the album Diari Aperti for Elisa Toffoli. He will then be in promotion with Elisa for various live shows including the Premio Tenco 2019. In 2018 he works for the producer Andrea Rigonat on Alessandra Amoroso's album. In the summer of 2019 he is on tour with Marco Mengoni. The collaboration in the studio and live with Marco Mengoni continues in 2021 under the musical direction of Giovanni Pallotti. In parallel with these multiple activities as a session musician at the highest level, he also finds the time to start a fusion/jazz rock project together with Marcello Sutera and Alessandro Altarocca in which Nicola is both author and producer (as well as musician). The core of the band is made up of Peruch, Altarocca, Sutera, Dennis Chambers, Erick Marienthal. Guests on the album "The Start Point" also include Gary Novak, Peter Erskine and Fabio Nobile. There has already been a mini tour in 2012 of 10 Italian dates for this project, and other concerts are scheduled for February 2013. Thanks to the support of the Artemedios agency, a European tour is scheduled for September 2013. In 2019 he records for Pier Paolo Ranieri's first solo album produced by Blind Faith Records. He begins to collaborate with Savana Funk on their second album as a session man and then enters as author and co-producer on the band's third album. He joined the band Savana funk in 2019 and then wrote and produced the fourth album with the trio, which will be released in April 2021 for the record company Garrincha Go Go. The activity of 2020 is therefore practically all in the studio, recording for various projects of the L'amor mio non muore label, and then recording the new album by Don Antonio Gramentieri, recording for the new album by Luca Sapio, recording for Roberto Villa and for Pana Emiliana. In January 2021 he returned to work on television for the program La Musica Che Gira Intorno by Fiorella Mannoia. During 2021, the live activity with Savana Funk and the work in the studio were continued, always collaborating with L'Amor Mio Non Muore and Don Antonio.