Giulia Nuti & Chiara Zanisi


Biography Giulia Nuti & Chiara Zanisi

Giulia Nuti & Chiara Zanisi

Giulia Nuti
studied viola at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Firenze). She plays viola and keyboards in the band Underfloor, that she joined in 2011 after contributing to their previous albums.

She was a member of Hypnodance and Lightshine. She played several times at the Premio Ciampi (an Italian national award for songwriters) with artists like Graziano Romani, Simone Felice, Emma Tricca, Claire Hamill, Underfloor, Kenny White. She worked as a musician and arranger on the italo-american hip hop artist DropAflo’s debut album (Warner Italia, 2004). She played viola and violin on Ernesto De Pascale’s first solo album, “Morning Manic Music” (2007) , and she co-wrote few of the songs. In 2006 she joined a project of traditional music from Sicily led by Salvatore Meccio, with whom she recorded the album “Salvatore Meccio – Una Rosa per Natale” (Materiali Sonori Associated, 2006). In 2007 she joined the project “Salvatore Meccio and Bandakaleido”. She played the viola on Graziano Romani’s “Tre Colori” album (2006) and she kept collaborating with him on all of his following releases.

In 2008 she played on the album “My Land is your land” by Ashley Hutchings (Fairport Convention, Steeley Span, Albion Band) and Ernesto De Pascale (Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red). In 2009 she played with the English songwriter Claire Hammil (the author of the song You Take My Breath Away) in her italian mini tours and recorded with her. Besides Underfloor, she collaborates with other projects and artists as Le Macchie di Rorschach, Pericle Sponzilli, Chiara White, Fabrizio Berti Jug Band.

As a journalist, she wrote for Rosso Fiorentino and for the magazine of Slow Food Italy. She currently writes for Jam, l’Ambasciata Teatrale and Il Popolo del Blues (www.ilpopolodelblues.com), that she edits together with the editor in chief Michele Manzotti. With Michele Manzotti and Fabrizio Berti , since 2011 she hosts Il Popolo del Blues radio show, broadcasted on Controradio (www.controradio.it) on saturady night and sunday afternoon, bringing on Ernesto De Pascale’s activity.

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