Davide Esposito

Davide Esposito was born in Napoli, Italy and grew up in the 1980s listening to the music of Lucio Dalla and Lucio Battisti. He is a musician, producer, singer, author, and composer. His usual instruments are piano, guitar, and bass guitar.

He wrote songs and music for Amir, Tina Arena, Amel Bent, Cindy Daniel, Celine Dion, Élodie Frégé, Fujisawa, Garou, Kendji Girac, Martin Giroux, Johnny Hallyday, Murray Head, Ishtar, Kelly Joyce, Patricia Kaas, Serge Lama, Grégory Lemarchal, Nolwenn Leroy, Michal, Mickaël Miro, Emmanuel Moire, Yelena Neva, Vincent Niclo, Norimasa, Olympe, Dejan Ozarevic, Florent Pagny, Mario Pelchat, M. Pokora, Edu del Prado, Lilian Renaud, Saya, Hélène Ségara, Sylvie Vartan, Amaury Vassili, and Joey Young.

His songs represent over 12,000,000 albums and singles sold in France and in countries around the world (including US, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, China, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Italy).

Esposito has worked with Abril, Tina Arena, Quentin Bachelet, Isabelle Bernal, Mattias Blomdahl, Benoit Carré, Eric Chemouny, Emmanuelle Cosso, Lionel Florence, Franck Fossey, Brendan Graham, Yann Guillon, Murray Head, Henrik Janson, Nick Jarl, Remi Lacroix, Jean-Felix Lalanne, Katia Landréas, Grégory Lemarchal, Matthieu Mendès, Christophe Miossec, Mogol, Quentin Mosimann, Yelena Neva, Tony Nilsson, Luc Plamondon, Edu del Prado, Renaud Rebillaud, Stanislas Renoult, Christian Walz, François Welgryn, Ycare, and Marie-Jo Zarb.

He played the first parts of several artists' concerts Christophe Maé, Emmanuel Moire, Dany Brillant and took part in Jean-Félix Lalanne shows Autour de la guitare and Double jeu.

Davide Esposito released three albums between 2007 and 2015.

• Amore Eterno

The first album, Amore Eterno (Eternal love), including the single Io so che tu, was released in December 2007 at Peermusic/Warner Music France. The song Io so che tu was part of the top 20 of the French charts[1] and was performed by Grégory Lemarchal with the French title Écris l'histoire (March 2005). Most of the 15 songs of the album were witten in Italian language. But some others were released in French (Elle était là, lyrics by Lionel Florence, Que toi au monde, written with Luc Plamondon and performed by Céline Dion on her album Sans attendre).

• Un uomo

The second album Un uomo was released on 14 at AZ. The first single Ti amo enters the Top 10. The album is made of 12 songs, including two duets, one with Julien Doré Via da te and another one with Claudia Cardinale Dolce Vita[2].[3]

• Roma California

The third album, Roma California, was born in 2015. It consists of Californian songs adapted in Italian by Davide, including a duet with Nina Zilli.[4] The album entered the iTunes Top 10 and the Top 20 of French charts. More than 40,000 copies are sold.

• Vincent Scotto Sacem Award in 2008 for the song De temps en temps written for Gregory Lemarchal [Song of the Year]
• UNAC Prize (Union des compositeurs français – French Composers Union) in 2012 for the song Juste pour me souvenir composed for Nolwenn Leroy
• SACEM Prize on 2016, December 5th Composer of the Year. The prize is given to Davide by Claudia Cardinale at the Parisian Folies Bergère.
• Prix de la Création Musicale in 2017 Composer of the Year[5]
• Prix de la Création Musicale in 2017 Composer of the Year[6]

• Amore Eterno (2007)
• Un uomo (2010)
• Roma California (2015)

• Music video of "Io so che tu"
• Music video of "Un italien à Paris"