Alice Viola Music

Munich based Italian singer and composer Alice Viola, has shaped a special combination of sounds influenced by  Neo Soul , R&B, Funk and Jazz singing in English , Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Alice Viola is graduated in Art Media and Entertainment at the University of Parma, she studied vocal technique with Maika Vilchez at the Escuela de Musica Creativa in Madrid, while she was part of the famous Dani Reus’ Gospel Choir “Gospel Factory”.

In New York she took singing classes with Rene Manning(Count Basie Orquestra) at the Brooklyn Conservatory, she participated to the Bob Stoloff’  scat workshops and the Barry Harris’ Jazz harmony workshop at Lincoln Center.

In Italy Alice Viola refined her jazz studies, studying piano with Stefania Tallini, jazz singing with Elisabetta Antonini in Rome and with Carla Marcotulli at The Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone, which she did not finish because her move to Munich, Germany.

In 2017 Alice Viola released her debut album  with 11 original songs composed by her: ” A Long Trip”, a project that moves around the spiritual and artistic journey experienced as growth, evolution, research and discovery of  herself.

A Long Trip symbolically encapsulate all that the singer has developed inwardly during the intense years spent abroad living in: Madrid, NYC, Montreal, Toronto, Rome and Munich, where she has had an intense concert activity parallel to her work as vocal coach for singers, actors and  dubbers.(Voice Art Dubbing Rome/Naples/Bari, Cento Per Cento Musica-Rome, Melody Music School-Rome, Performing Art Studio-Munich, Melodrom Musik Schule-Munich, MMC Musik Schule-Munich, Silver Stage Tone Studio-Munich).

Some of A Long Trip’s tracks, including “1000 Mistakes” and “Little Girl”, have been broadcast on British radio stations specialise  in Jazz and Soul music and have put Alice Viola at 9th place on the Soul  2018 charts: BBC Oxford 95Æ2¨,BBC Solent Paul Miller show¨,BBC Surrey¨ BBC Sussex¨ GFM 96Æ6 Gluchester Soulfusion Electric Soul Jerry Hipkins show¨ Solar Radio Soul Station¨John Osborne\ show, Stereonotte -Radio Rai 1 Max De Tomassi’ show.

In Germany she performed with her band “Alice Viola & The Shades”, Jazz Kitchen, Brisa D’Oro, Som Do Mar, Christopher Lehner Quintet.

Alice Viola released on January 29th 2021 the first single of her homonymous new Ep called “Dust ‘Til Sun”:

“When everything seems lost, and you sink so low, to touch the bottom, until you eat the dust, you can choose to go back up to the light, enhancing the small things that surround you and finding contact with all the elements of nature; Love is in everything, LOVE IS THE ANSWER through which to find again your essence and the sun that is inside you.”

The single was released together with a Youtube Video Premiere that had a beautiful success with almost 22.000 views in 2 weeks.

The video was shot by Il Brain Agency, in a beautiful place called “Aquila Waterfalls” between the montains.

Alice  Viola was looking for a place where the bursting strength and the immensity of nature could reinforce and emphasize the concept she wanted to express in the song.
The second single “Dreamer” will be release on March 5th 2021 on every digital stores. The song is talking about the dreamer, conceived as a fearless hero, who chooses every day to dream and fight with devotion and sacrifice for his dreams, no matter what people say.
Dreamer will be accompanied by a YOUTUBE Video Premiere on 03.12, produced by RKH Studio.

“Volcanic, exciting, deep, energetic, sometimes sharp other silky”, are the words to define the style of Alice Viola’s music and personality.

The new Ep “Dust ‘Til Sun” it was released on 06.04.2021 on all the digital stores, accompanied by a third single “Sunday Afternoon” and a video Premiere on YouTube.