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Artist
Monica Shannon
12+ albums
IndieGuild
about
Monica Shannon has been singing and writing songs for more than ten years. When she was 12, she started playing piano and noting her first inspirations. She had a great teacher, Mr Aldo Garavini, musician at “La Scala Orchestra” in Milan. He introduced her to the magical music world of Prokofiev, Bela Bartok, Debussy; he taught her how poetry inspires music and vice versa. She still remembers how when she played the piano, he used to read a poem and, during one of those sessions, she got to know Dylan Thomas and Octavio Paz as well...unforgettable lessons! Then, when she was 17, she started singing and, at the same time, she wrote her first soundtrack for a comedy in her home town theatre, “La Verità di Mezzanotte” (Midnight Truth). In order to improve her vocal technique, she took jazz style classes with a famous singer, Tiziana Ghiglioni, for two years. During that period she was invited to be the lead vocalist of a Jazz-Swing Band, “The 52nd Street Swing Band”, performing standards in pubs and theatres. Monica has always been looking for her innermost artistic direction and she thought that travelling was the right way to start to open her mind towards different cultures and music styles. The place where she started this adventure was Ireland. A lot of her songs are actually inspired by traditional Celtic music and then arranged in a modern style. An increasing collaboration with other artists has also improved her creativity. First of all, with her previous band, the “Dia
