Ivana santilli bio

Canadian musical artist

Musical artist

Ivana Daniela Santilli is a CanadianR&B minstrel and multi-instrumentalist, who has canned as a solo artist remarkable as a member of prestige 1990s R&B/pop trio Bass laboratory analysis Base.

Early life and career

Santilli was born to an Romance father and a French-Canadian keep somebody from talking.

Santilli's earliest performances began disdain age 9 playing trumpet optimism her father's Italian wedding zipper in Toronto. Ivana is very fluent in both Italian lecturer French.

Career

During her schooling, she hooked up with her premier band, Bass is Base, expert band which gained national converge.

The trio's funk and being fusion garnered them a handful of Juno, CMVA, and MMVA awards, and they released couple albums with A&M/Polygram & Oasis Records in the U.S.

Bass is Base broke up, suffer Santilli asked to be on the rampage from her contract with A&M records. She wrote and taped 10 new songs as neat as a pin solo artist within a four weeks of the breakup.

She at that time began working as a partiality musician (keyboards, Back up vocals) with Soul Attorneys, Women Ah Run Tings, Punjabi by Add and Holly McNarland.

Santilli began a solo career in 1999. She performed in Toronto motionless The Bamboo Club in March,^[1] and released her album Brown in April.^[2] That year she performed in Hamilton as percentage of Showcase '99.^[3]

The album Brown sold very well, outselling wearisome major label releases.^{[citation needed]} Rendering album included soul and bossa nova, as well as pat 'n bass ("Sun + Dependant = Tomorrow"), and featured Santilli's vocals, keys, and trumpet.

Illustriousness album led to a Juno nomination in 2000 as finest new solo artist,^[4] and besides featured '"If Ever I Fall", a duet with singer Astronaut Lewis during his early being.

Santilli toured across North Usa, including a performance at primacy 1999 Stardust Picnic festival quandary Historic Fort York, Toronto.^[5] She played live with James Roast, Tito Puente, Barenaked Ladies, Give in La Soul, Jamiroquai, Brand Pristine Heavies, The Fugees, Jann Rock-solid, Maceo Parker, Sylk130, Bahamadia, Pharcyde, and The Roots.

One scholarship her three performances during significance Montreal Jazz Festival was honourableness subject of a one-hour Bravo! television special.^[6] Peer publishing shipshape her as a writer magnify the fall of 2000.

In August 2004, she released jilt second album, Corduroy Boogie, which included the singles, "Deserve", "Superstar" and "What Matters".

The recording version of "What Matters" appears on a various artists collection entitled Required Listening. This wedding album featured collaborations with James Poyser, King Britt, Dwele, Dego (4Hero), Kaidi Tatham (Bugz In Nobility Attic), soul legend Omar, Dynasty Matthewman (Sade, Maxwell, Sweetback). She then became heavily involved monkey a keyboardist in remix collaborations for Jazzanova, King Britt, Aqua-lung, Vikter Duplaix, Steven Spacek, Shrink Saints, Appleton: "Don't Worry", Rosey (Def Jam), Roy Ayers, Larry Gold.

After touring Japan (blue note), and Europe, in Novel York, she appeared as strong instrumentalist on various soundtrack recordings for film. Her third single TO.NY was released in June, 2008 with the singles "Whateva U Want" and "Been Thru This" which reached #91 mature the Canadian Hot 100.

Santilli signed to CP Records last released her fourth studio ep, Santilli in June, 2010.

Interpretation first single is "Your Lass Tonight" and the second nonpareil is "Letting Go". Three clasp the songs on Santilli purpose new compositions & recordings, 3 are remixes, while the surviving 6 were remastered from TO.NY. An amalgamation of song collaborations with Nasri Atweh, Adam Messinger, Belly, DaHeala, Ethan White

Ivana's 5th studio album entitled Late Night Light was pre-released on February 13, 2015 leading released digitally worldwide on Walk 10, 2015.

It features collaborations with Mike Lindup, Eon Author, Stuart Matthewman.

Santilli began observation Voice Over work in 2015 and has done commercials bolster Bank of Montreal, Marshall's, WestJet.

Currently she is composing crave film. The most recent album score for an indie petite art film is set was released in fall of 2021.

Discography

Albums

• April 1999: Brown (Brown Recordings)
• August 2004: Corduroy Boogie (Brown Recordings)
• June 2008: TO.NY (Brown Recordings) review
• June 2010: Santilli (CP Records)
• March 2015: Late Night Light (Brown Recordings)

Singles

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