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Artist
Etta Scollo
12+ albums
female vocalistsitalianfolkjazzsinger-songwriter
about
Etta Scollo was born in Catania, where she majored in Arts in high school. At the age of 18, she moved to Turin and began studying to become an Architect. She abandoned her studies, however, in order to devote herself to music completely. She won first prize at the "Diano Marina-Jazz Festival", which was directed by Jazz composer Giorgio Gaslini. Around this time, she also attended a three-year course in singing at the Vienna Conservatory. Between 1983 and 1987 she worked with artists such as saxophonist Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Sunnyland Slim and Champion Jack Dupree, both in the recording studio and in concerts. She attended singing seminars with artists such as Bobby McFerrin and Sheila Jordan during the same period. Chance encounters with producers from the Pop music scene led to cooperations such the recording of the Paul McCartney song "Oh Darling", which Etta adapted with Italian lyrics. This song immediately shot to No. 1 in the Austrian charts. In the 1990s she was busy in Hamburg where she, along with the musical Ensemble L'art pour l'Art (see also Palimpsest by H. J. Hespos), undertook experiments with contemporary music. She composed film scores – for example Come la pioggia for the film "Für immer und immer" (for ever and ever) by Hark Bohm and "I tuoi fiori" for the film "Bad Guy" by Korean director Kim Ki-Duk. Due to her musical tours and her albums Blu, Il bianco del tempo (Orbit Rec.) and Casa (Mongebel), she is one of the most popular Italian artists in Germ
