ABOUT

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Singer-songwriter di ispirazione country/blues/folk, dopo esser stato chitarrista e autore per diverse band come Underground Railroad, Free Jam e Violassenzio ha  intrapreso un progetto solista con il quale ha realizzato due album “Stubborn Will” (2016) e “Crossing” (2020), entrambi distribuiti da IRD Distribuzioni in Italia, (vedi la sezione PEOPLE SAY per le recensioni). In questa veste ha ottenuto numerosi riscontri aprendo i concerti per diversi artisti nazionali ed internazionali fra cui Jack Broadbent (UK) , Ben Ottewell (Gomez, UK), Pulp Dogs (con Vince Pastano e Antonello D’Urso), Paolo Bonfanti (IT), Hollis Brown (USA),  Mary Cutrufello (USA), Laura Crisci (USA), Buford Pope (SWE), Hayward Williams (USA) altri. Tra i concerti significativi si segnalano il Karel Music Expo di Cagliari (2015 e 2018) The Bedford di Londra, il Centro di arti visive (MGLC) di Ljubjana in Slovenia, il Ferrara Buskers Festival (2019 e 2020), il Delta Blues di Rovigo (2021), il Muggia Blues a Trieste e la rassegna I Colori dei Suoni di Salerno (2024).

Nel corso degli anni ha aperto i concerti e talvolta suonato con NINE BELOW ZERO, HOLLIS BROWN, BEN OTTEWELL (Gomez) MARY CUTRUFELLO, JACK BROADBENT, BUFORD POPE, HAYWARD WILLIAMS, TOLO MARTON, ANDY J FOREST, THE BLUESMEN, THE MOGSY, BAREFOOT, JAMES MONQUE’D, JONO MANSON, MANDOLIN BROTHERS, LAURA CRISCI, PAOLO BONFANTI, VINCE PASTANO, ANTONELLO D’URSO, PULP DOGS,  e altri.

English

Guitarist, singer-songwriter from Ferrara, Italy. After playing with different bands like Underground Railroad, Free Jam and Violassenzio he has started a solo acoustic project.
In July 2016 he published his first full length album entitled “Stubborn Will” (distributed by Melodic Revolution Records in the US and IRD Distribuzioni in Italy). He opened for different artists including Ben Ottewell (Gomez, UK), Paolo Bonfanti (IT), Laura Crisci (USA), Hollis Brown (USA), Jack Broadbent (UK) , Mary Cutrufello (USA), Buford Pope (SWE), Hayward Williams (USA) and many others. In 2015 he has also played several clubs in London (including the Alley Cat and the Bedford) and in 2015 and 2018 has been invited twice to the international festival Karel Music Expo in Cagliari-Italy. His music is mainly rooted in folk blues and country. On the 1st of July 2020 he released his new new album “Crossing” under the name Enrico Cipollini & The Skyhorses (distributed by IRD Distribuzioni)

Through the years he had opened gigs and jammed with musicians and bands like: NINE BELOW ZERO, HOLLIS BROWN, JACK BROADBENT, BEN OTTEWELL (Gomez, UK), MARY CUTRUFELLO, BUFORD POPE, TOLO MARTON, ANDY J FOREST, THE BLUESMEN, THE MOGSY, BAREFOOT, JAMES MONQUE’D, JONO MANSON, MANDOLIN BROTHERS, LAURA CRISCI, PAOLO BONFANTI, VINCE PASTANO, ANTONELLO D’URSO, PULP DOGS, HOLLIS BROWN and others.