NICOLA PERUCH
musician, session man, arranger
Nicola began his career as a professional musician very early, already at the age of 14 he was on tour with Grazia Di Michele. His session activity continues with other important names in the Italian music scene such as Alex Baroni, Funky Company, Ladri di Biciclette, Mietta, Marcello Pieri, until 2002 when he joined the first important international project with the European tour of Terence Trent D'Arby. He grows professionally playing a lot of different music in the most disparate situations, from small clubs and social centers, to large stadiums, arenas and festivals.
In 2003, after the tour with Cesare Cremonini (with whom he also collaborates in the studio), the first important works on television arrive. Nicola in the following years will take part in many RAI productions all signed by Bibi Ballandi with the role of programmer keyboard operator: Panariello (2004), Celentano (2005 Rockpolitik), Carra '(2006), Music Farm (2005).
In on these occasions he had the opportunity to play with the likes of: Santana, Patty Smith, Dionne Warwick, Claudio Baglioni, Renato Zero, Ligabue, Biagio Antonacci, Ben Harper, Jovanotti, Poul Anka, Tiziano Ferro, Irene Grandi, Elisa, Giorgia, Temptations, Sister Sledge, Jamie Cullum, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti, and many other Italian artists and present as guests in various television shows.
In September 2011, the Chocabeck World Tour of Zucchero begins which runs until July 2012. In 2013 it will be part of the Zucchero world tour which will start from Australia and then touch Europe, North America and South America.
In 2015 he toured with Tiziano Ferro first in stadiums, then in Italian and European sports halls. A live DVD of the tour was released.
In 2016 he is session man in the studio for Fiorella Mannoia.
A new cycle of work begins with Zucchero who will take him on tour from August 2016 to August 2018 for 190 concerts around the world.
In the spring of 2018 he participated in the realization of the album The Crossing by Alejandro Escovedo produced by Braian Deck and Antonio Gramentieri. The album was toured in the USA for two periods of two months in 2018 and 2019.
He had been involved by Antonio Gramentieri himself as session man for the Delone dei Sacri Cuori disc and for Antonio Gramentieri's Don Antonio disc.
Also in the spring of 2018 he records the album Diari Aperti for Elisa Toffoli and will then be in promotion with Elisa for various live shows including the Tenco 2019 Award.
In 2018 he works for the producer Andrea Rigonat on Alessandra Amoroso's album.
In the summer of 2019 he is on tour with Marco Mengoni.
The collaboration in studio and live with Marco Mengoni continues in 2021 under the musical direction of Giovanni Pallotti.
Parallel to these multiple activities as a top-level session musician, he also finds time to start a fusion / jazz rock project together with Marcello Sutera and Alessandro Altarocca in which Nicola is both author and producer (as well as musician). The core of the band consists of Peruch, Altarocca, Sutera, Dennis Chambers, Erick Marienthal. Guests of the album "The Start Point" also Gary Novak, Peter Erskine and Fabio Nobile.
There has already been a mini tour in 2012 of 10 Italian dates for this project, and other concerts are planned for February 2013. Thanks to the support of the Artemedios agency, a European tour is planned for September 2013.
In 2019 he recorded for Pier Paolo Ranieri's first solo album produced by Blind Faith Records.
He starts collaborating with Savana Funk on their second album as a session man and then joins as an author and co-producer on the band's third album.
He definitively joined the band Savana funk in 2019 and then wrote and produced together with the trio the fourth album which is out in April 2021 for the record company Garrincha Go Go.
The activity of 2020 is therefore practically all in the studio, recording for various projects of the L'amor mio non muore label, and then recording the new album by Don Antonio Gramentieri, recording for the new album by Luca Sapio, recording for Roberto Villa and for Pana Emiliana.
In January 2021 he returned to work on television for Fiorella Mannoia's La Musica Che Gira Intorno program.
During 2021, the live activity with Savana Funk and the studio work, always collaborating with L'Amor Mio Non Muore and with Don Antonio.