Giada Valenti

Singer and songwriter Giada Valenti is recognized for her special voice and great stage presence. With her new CD, And I Love You So, Giada is bringing her romantic music and her sophisticated style to music fans worldwide. And I Love You So features Giada’s interpretations of such songs as “La Vie En Rose”, “It’s Impossible”, “Grande Grande Grande” and “Se (love theme of Cinema Paradiso)”.



Born and raised in Venice, Italy, Giada Valenti started to sing and play piano at the age of seven. She began touring professionally with a band by age twelve. She studied piano and music theory at the Santa Cecilia music school in Venice and got her music degree at the G. Tartini in Trieste. She also studied jazz with American singer Dawn Mitchell.



When in 2004 her music got serious interest from a major record label in New York, she she decided to spend most of her time in United States. In December 2005, Giada’s self-released CD Italian Signorina was launched in the USA to great reviews. Italian Signorina featured the song “Caruso” that Giada performed on the red carpet at the Columbus Day Parade in 2005, 2006, and 2007 in New York City. Giada has performed a selection of songs of her new CD And I Love You So at the 2008 and 2009 edition of this parade, and was featured on NBC Television.



In October 2008 Giada was named Woman of the Year by the Organization of Italian Charities In America. In February 2010 she was honored by the Commision for Social Justice of the Order Sons of Italy in America for being a good Italian role model. American figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi used Giada’s music in an ice show performance broadcast on NBC Television. Producer Sonny Grosso and fourteen times Grammy winning record producer Phil Ramone selected Giada for a role in the Broadway musical Be My Love, based on the life story of tenor Mario Lanza.



Over the past four years, Giada also performed her own original shows La Dolce Vita Swings and Moonlight & Romance, in sold out-theatres in New York. During these shows, she takes her audience on a journey across the Atlantic, singing the most beautiful Italian and American love songs. She has brought these concerts to Europe and to other cities in the United States.



In June 2007 Giada made her the debut at one of the most exclusve places to perform in the U.S.: Feinstein’s at the Regency in New York City. With her show Tribute To The European Divas, featuring the music of such great female singers as Edith Piaf, Dusty Springfield, Shirley Bassey, Mina and Ornella Vanoni, she has become a regular performer at this prestigious venue.



In 2009 Giada introduced a new show, entitled “Tribute To Love”, which sold out at the Hilton Casino & Resort. In May 2010 Giada started her new Off-Broadway show “A Night In Italy (Una Notte In Italia)”, which features a selection of the most beautiful love songs from the Italian and American songbook.