"Bands don’t come more fun, frivolous and ballsy than Francesco's band. This joyous mix of Italian, Spanish, Gypsy and Ska music makes for a sound somewhere between The Godfather and the best festival band you’ve ever seen in your life. Some of the finest musicians in the capital today having easily the best time you’ve ever seen a band have on stage. Do not miss this absolute delight." Grazie mille to Adam Pickering of Sounddhism
VIDEOS
Con te Partirò (Live at Victoria Park -London-)
Francesco Filizzola's Showreel & I Riviera's
La Dolce Vita (from Sanremo Festival)
Live at China Tang at Dorchester Hotel
Can't help falling in love -Live in Spetses- Greece
Tu Vuò Fà l'Americano - We No Speak Americano
Caruso (Live at Basson Bar -Corinthia Hotel)
Volare (Live at Basson Bar -Corinthia Hotel)
THIS IS ME
More deft moves on the starlit dancefloor where brilliant Italian-Spanish-gypsy band Colomboloco whipped everyone into dervishes - warmed up just a little by the copious and excellent drinks thanks to Moët, Belvedere vodka, Jax Coco, Hennessy, Gin Mare, wine from Berry Bros & Rudd - and naughty, naughty Ocho tequila. Not bad for a Monday night.
-cntraveller.com
Francesco is supported by the great Colomboloco band and together they are the most fun you can have in London or wherever you would like them to play for you.
A blend of the best Dolce Vita swing, Spanish-Latin fire, rock and roll extravaganza, opera power, lounge music charm, and Neapolitan and tarantella flavour.
Francesco enjoys residencies in many of London’s most prestigious music venues, has performed at festivals and toured across the UK and Europe. He has also popped up at private parties for the likes of Prince Charles, King Willem-Alexander, Nursultan Nazarbayev (President of Kazakhstan), Queen Maxima, Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess Ariane, Queen Sofia, Princess Stephanie of Luxembourg, Princess Beatrice, Crown Princess Marie-Chantal, Princess Michael, Princess Maria Olympia, Queen Anne Marie, Princess Tatiana and Princess Irene, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, Kylie Minogue, Boris Johnson, Gordon Ramsay, and many more.
The band’s musicians hail from Italy, Spain, Greece, UK and Turkey, and Francesco sings in several languages including English, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew and Russian.
Francesco Filizzola Di Tomaso was born on the West coast of Southern Italy (Praia a Mare) and grew up in Rotonda, a small village in the heart of the National Park of Pollino. Mountains and sea, combined with the classical and folk music typical of the area, have always played an important role in Francesco’s life and contributed to shape his personality and philosophy. He was lucky enough to grow up in a family where music was extremely important. It was his grandfather Giosuè Filizzola (a composer of classical music) who passed the passion for music on to him and once told him: “You need to play only what you really feel and make sound without forgetting the importance of silence”. After initially studying classical trumpet, Francesco moved on to focus on vocal studies, developing a highly original vocal style taking in techniques as diverse as Italian Opera (Covent Garden) and Mongolian throat singing. Combined with his natural talent for theatricality and physical expressiveness, he moves effortlessly through this astonishing range of vocal styles to create a captivating and often hilarious tragic-comic stage personality
MUSIC
MAKE YOUR OWN SET LIST
Italian
1) Conte Partirò
2) Caruso
3) Volare
4) L'Italiano vero
5) Susanna
6) Felicità
7) Mamma maria
8) Sarà perchè tiamo
9) Gloria
10) Ti amo
11) Che Sarà
12) Mambo Italiano
13) Azzurro
14) Quando quando
15) Confessa
16) Stivali e colbacco
17) Parlami d'amore Mariù
18) Via con me, that's Wonderful
19) Parla più piano (Godfather)
20) La ragazza d'Ipanema
21) Io che non vivo
22) Il mondo
23) Storia d'amore
24) Carina
25) E' solo questione di tempo
26) 20 Km al giorno
27) Guarda che luna
28) I sing amore
29) Permettete Signorina
30) In cerca di te
31) Buona sera signorina
32) Fatti mandare dalla mamma
33) Il Gatto e La Volpe
34) Marina
35) Alghero
36) Guarda Come Dondolo
37) E ho in mente te
38) Acqua Azzurra
39) 10 Ragazze per me
40) Il tempo di morire
41) Tutto Quello che un Uomo
42) Meravigliosa creatura
43) Colpevole
44) Gianna
35) Estate
Napolitan
1) Tu Vuò fa l'americano
2) O surdato'nnammurato
3) Funiculì Funiculà
4) MarìMarì
5) Malafemmena
6) Comme facette mammeta
7) Reginella
8) Maruzzella
9) Osarracino
10) Caravan Petrol
11) Tammuriata nera
12) C'è la luna mezz o mare
13) Tu si na cosa grande pe' me
From classical repertoire
1) Nessun Dorma
2) Parla più Piano (Godfather) 3) La donna è mobile
4) Una furtiva lacrima
5) Vesti la giubba
6) Con te Partirò
7) Dicitencello Vuje
8) O sole mio
9) Torna a Surriente
11) Marechiaro
12) I te vurria Vasa
13) Santa Lucia
14) Santa lucia luntana
Roman
1) Chitarra romana
2) Roma non fa la stupida st.
3) Arrivederci Roma
4) Tanto pe Canta
American and English
1) That's amore
2) Can't help falling in..
3) Delilah
4) Perfect Pymphony
5) Suspicious mind
5) It don't mean a thing
6) What a wonderful world
7) Teddy bear
8) My funny Valentine
9) Fly me to the moon
10) It don't mean a thing
11) Hound Dog
12) Summertime
13) Don't
14) Fever
15) Always on my mind
16) If I can dream
17) you can't never tell
18) Love me Tender
19) That's all right mama
20) St. James infermery
21) House of the Rising Sun
22) O Mary don't you weap
23) Born Free
24) I sing Amore
25) Cheek to cheek
26) My way
27) New York New York
28) Beautiful Love
29) Hallelujah
30) All of me
31) Diana
32) You are my destiny
33) Carole
34) Crazy little thing called..
35) Sway
36) Moondance
37) Come fly with me
38) I'm just a gigolo
39) Ring of fire
40) Dance to the end of love
41) Sitting in the morning sun 42) Light my fire
43) Bang bang
44) Bring it on home to me
45) Stand by me
46) I put a spell on you
Spanish and Latin
1) Bamboleo
2) A mi manera
3) Volando voy
4) Poroppopero
5) Brigitte Bardot
South America
1) Besame Mucho
2) Al cuarto de tula
3) Tuyo (Narcos)
4) El muerto vivo
5) La bamba
6) Lagrimas por una sonrisa
7) Hasta siempre comandante
8) La colegiala
9) Mariachi
10) Quizas Quizas Quizas
11) Dos Gardenias
12) Lagrimas Negras
13) La cucaracha
14) Historia de un amor
15) Chan chan
16) Desaparecido
17) Clandestino
18) Moliendo cafè
19) Adios muchacho
20) Por una cabeza
21) Guantanamera
Frence
1) La vie en rose
2) Un royaume enchanté
Jewish
1) Hava naghila
Russian
1) Ochi chernye
2) Midnight in Moscow
3) Uno momento
4) A Cruel Romance
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