Elio Pace
| Elio Pace | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 February 1968 Woking, England, UK |
| Genres | Pop rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, musical director |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Labels | Rosa Records |
| Website | www |
Elio Pace (born 1968) is a British singer/songwriter/piano-player/producer/arranger.
Elio was born in Woking, Surrey, in 1968 of Italian parents. He showed early signs of natural musical talent when he started to sing and play the piano at the age of four. Throughout his childhood he developed his ear for music as well as his love of rock & roll. He had his first 'proper' piano lesson at the age of eleven achieving the highest qualification of Grade 8 by the time he was seventeen.
Elio went on to train at the Leeds College of Music, and in 1988, singing and playing his own songs, he reached the final of Bob Says Opportunity Knocks on BBC TV, which led to numerous radio and television appearances including, Wogan, Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out and The Les Dawson Show with Shirley Bassey and Randy Crawford. In 1989, he starred in his own 30-minute documentary about his life and music, as part of ITV's The Music Makers.
Toured the UK in the original casts of Tutti Frutti, Great Balls of Fire and Dancing in the Street. He appeared in and was Musical Director for many shows including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (as the Pharaoh), West Side Story (as Tony); five DGM productions, Rave On, Summer in the City, Itchycoo Park, Hold Tight It's 60's Night and Hold Tight It's 70's Night, and Bill Kenwright's Thank You for the Music in which he appeared as Elton John and Billy Joel.
In 2000, he was asked to put together and direct a 15-piece band for an outdoor concert, to perform and to back other artists including Art Garfunkel, David Soul and Katrina Leskanich. Great Balls of Fire recorded live at this concert features on the album Come And Get It. In the same year he went to the USA twice – in June to Nashville to play piano and sing background vocals on a re-recording of his own song, Got The Bug Back, by a newly signed RCA recording artist and in August to act as Musical Director and co-star in a three-month run of the musical comedy Song of Singapore, playing the blind, jazz-pianist Freddy S. Lyme, at The New Theatre, Kansas City starring Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H. He appeared in Song of Singapore at The Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 1998 in its British Premiere and in July 2001 he again appeared as Freddy when Song of Singapore opened at The Mayfair Theatre in London's West End.
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