Fredo Viola

Fredo Viola
Birth name Alfred Viola
Origin London, England
Genres Folk, ambient, post rock
Years active 2004–present
Labels Because Music
Website fredoviola.com

Fredo Viola is an American singer/songwriter and multi-media artist. He was born in London, England, but has resided in the United States for most of his life. He currently lives in Woodstock, N.Y. He graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, but has always been most passionate about music. Viola lists some influential artists, such as Shostakovich, Britten, Bartók, Stravinsky and Belle & Sebastian.

Career

He had an internet hit on YouTube with "The Sad Song" in 2004. In 2007, he signed with French label Because Music. He released his debut album on December 2008.

In late 2007, Fredo devoted his attention to a long series of live to Digital Performances he called "cluster videos", by releasing one video each month on his website.

In late 2008, working in collaboration with the Spanish agency Aer studio, he released an interactive web site called The Turn, a web site that also serves the function of displaying his new interactive videos. The videos come in unusual shapes (circular, hexagonal) as well as widescreen rectangles, and can be turned during playback.

His second studio album titled "Revolutionary Son" was released under Revolutionary Son Productions, LCC in April 2014.[1] The record was said to be "An audacious album pulsing with rhythm, colour and, above all, sumptuous melody." by Chris Evans of Allmusic.[2] It made #52 on Les Inrockuptibles list of Top 100 Albums in 2014.[3]

In 2015, he released the first of series of short, improvised a cappella pieces titled "The Elementals: It Began To Rain" on May 1, 2015.[4] That same year he began a music collaboration with cellist Melora Creager of the rock band Rasputina, pianist Luis Mojica, and performance artist Ryder Cooley in what was known as "The Platte Clove Nature Theater". [5] [6]

Discography

Albums

Singles and EPs

Other notes

In 2004, "Let the Sad Out" was licensed for use in Jonathan Demme’s film The Manchurian Candidate.

In 2005, Viola had four songs licensed for use in Mike Binder's film Man About Town, for which he produced a second version of his "Sad Song" video.

"The Sad Song" was used on season four of The O.C: "The Shake Up", "The Night Moves" and in season 5 of CSI: Miami in the episode "Broken Home". Additionally, the song is played at the beginning and at the end of the movie The Education of Charlie Banks. Most recently, "The Sad Song" was used in the 2008 film Birds of America.

Videography

References

Sources

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