Marco Guazzone was born in Rome in 1988. He studied composition for piano at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music and composition for film scores at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In 2010, he self-produced and released his first single, “Love Will Save Us”, which was chosen as the official soundtrack for the Fox Life commercial.
With a song “Broken” participates in the 62nd Sanremo Festival in the youth section, receiving Assomusica and Rai Gulp awards. In 2012 he released his first album with STAG called “Atlas of thoughts” produced by Steve Lyon, producer and sound engineer who has worked with Paul McCartney, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Subsonica, Linea 77.
For a song “How are you”, co-written and interpreted with Paolo Buonvino and Malika Ayane, nominated for the 2015 Ciak D’Oro Award for Best Original Song for the soundtrack of the film “Fratelli Unici”. In 2013 he composed various soundtracks for cinema, theater and television (La Mamma Imperfetta by Ivan Cotroneo, Il Don Giovanni by Filippo Timi). In 2014, Eliza invited him as a guest to the stage of the Summer Festival in Lucca to perform several songs with her in a duet.
In 2015 Marco Guazzone writes a song “No Lies” which becomes the official soundtrack of AISM’s awareness and fundraising campaign. In 2017, his second album with the band of the same name was released. “To Miracles” in which he duet with actress Mathilde De Angelis on the song “Vienimi A Cercare”.
In September of the same year, he, along with his band, played in the Arena Di Verona at the opening of Elisa’s concert dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the artist’s career. He composed and played with Marianne Mirage the song that is the end credits of the soundtrack to the film “The Place” directed by “Perfect Strangers” Paolo Genovese. The song was nominated for the 2018 David Di Donatello and Nastri D’Argento Award for Best Original Song. He contributed to the soundtrack for three seasons of the television series “Tutto può succedere” Rai 1, in which he plays himself.
Marco Guazzone he also co-wrote the single “Ideal” Ed Sheeran, in which the latter duet with Andrea Bocelli, becoming the first Italian author to collaborate with a British singer-songwriter. During the 69th Sanremo Festival, Guazzone wrote and edited the duet of Aris and Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet for their performance on the fourth night. In March 2019, La Notte E’ Piccola Per Noi was shown in theaters, for which he composed and interpreted the soundtrack with his band, and also appeared in the film as an actor.
He wrote for such artists as Arisa, Andrea Bocelli, Lorenzo Licitra, Chiara Galiazzo. It was nominated for the 2020 Grammy Writers Award for Andrea Bocelli’s “Yes”, nominated in the category “Best Traditional Pop Album” at the 62nd International Music Awards. Since April 2016, he has been hosting a live music program broadcast on Inblu radio, and in April 2020 he published a cover of the song “Azzurro” by Adriano Celentano, which becomes the official theme song of the radio program “C’è Semper Una Canzone – Live”. Da Casa” always airs on Inblu Radio. Together with STAG, his group has opened concerts for artists such as Moby, Suzanne Vega, Malika Ayane, Elisa, Niccolò Fabi, Arisa, Morgan, Dolcenera, Levante, L’Aura for almost a decade , Jay Brannan. , Restless, Ex-Otago, Azure Beam, Meganoids between Italy, England, Greece and Lebanon.
(last updated: August 19, 2023)
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