About Me
1) – THE BEGINNINGS
Hi guys, my name is Roberto Caporali and I’m an italian singer, musician and songwriter who currently lives and works in Prague (Czech Republic). I was born on October 22,1973 in Foggia, in the South of Italy but I grew up since childhood in the city of Turin where I graduated from the Civic School Of Music in 1992. But my love for music was much more before this time… I still remember when my grandfather, singer as well, gave me a small classical guitar as a gift for my 9th. Birthday. I never imagined that from that one day music would became the most important thing of all to me. Singing, playing guitar and writing songs was and is for me a kind of physical need and an helpful medicine for the soul even before being my passions and, basically now, my work too. I was about twenty years old when, together with another three musicians, I founded a small band called Cuba Libre which performed for at least five years in major clubs, theaters and music festivals in northeast of my country proposing a kind of experimental pop full of ethnic sounds. Our repertoire included mostly remakes of famous songs (Italian and International evergreens) but also our own original songs of which we were always very proud. Around 2000 this wonderful experience ended because I needed a pause for an artistic and existential refection which I devoted to the study of new musical styles and practice of the instrument. I would return soon to perform in public with a regenerated spirit, new skills and more energy on the stage.
2) – WHY PRAGUE…
After I have participated to good effect in several national competitions for new voices and music talents (Memorial Mia Martini in 2001, Festival Di Solarolo in 2003, Una Canzone Nel Mondo n 2004), I finally started to cooperate as an author with some artists already famous like the Italian singer Drupi, the Polish singer and actor Andrzej Piaseczny and the Czech tenor Bohuš Matuš. Traveling a lot abroad for work I was able to figure out how much the Italian culture in general, and music in particular, is appreciated and respected some everywhere and especially in the countries of Eastern Europe. In Prague, for example, there are good prospects for job and career for an italian musician because the old town is full of live music venues and the italian community is vast and laborious; also the popular local artists are very much willing to undertake collaborations record. By year 2007, starting from these good premises, I begun to come more frequently in Czech Republic and to perform as a singer occasionally in restaurants and music clubs of its wonderful capital city. In the beginning all seemed to me just like a game, like a funny and colorful dream but, soon after, everything happened very quickly… so much that in the summer of 2008 I decided to move permanently to Prague where I’m still living now. Over here and in many other cities of the country I am presently working for agencies and private clients in theaters, hotels, posh restaurants but also in music clubs and discotheques. So, what once seemed almost impossible to me… has now become a pleasant reality and, even if I keep on doing concerts elsewhere also, the feeling you get to sing in this wonderful, fascinating and mysterious old city remains unique and unrepeatable…
3) – TECHNICAL FEATURES & TYPES OF PERFORMANCES
My vocal range is baritone and, to be precise, I’m a bass baritone with a vocal timbre quite strong and a color of voice pretty clean, suitable for running classical pieces of traditional Italian and International evergreens (50s and 60s). Despite this, due to working needs, a large part of my repertoire as a simple singer / performer concerns the Italian and International pop hits of the 70s and 80s with a special care to the Italian songs well known abroad . As a songwriter finally, I could say that my compositions , lyrics and music,are attributable to a pop-rock style and my voice singing my own songs, as it becomes more harsh and hoarse than usual, apparently less cured in technical details but, perhaps, even more communicative. So, I have a double artistic soul: as a performer and as an author of songs but they coexist peacefully within me giving me both so many nice sensations. I also play acoustic guitar but I’m not a professional guitarist; I use the tool more as a basic support of my voice in some live concert and mostly during that magical process of composing music and songs. I sing mainly in Italian and English but sometimes in French and Spanish too; I have a good control of all these languages and their right pronunciation. I really love to perform alone on the stage but the cooperations with other bands or solo – artists are more and more frequent such as studio recording and as lives. So, I tried to give you as much informations as possible about my artistic activity… Now you have just to take a look to my videos and listen to my songs… what is much more important than all the words that I have written so far…
Enjoy it and take care !! 
