Freddy Curci

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Freddy Curci
Born (1962-10-30) October 30, 1962 (age 61)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresRock
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Years active1979–present
Labels EMI, Frontiers Records

Federico "Freddy" Curci (born October 30, 1962) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was lead vocalist for the rock band Sheriff and later founded and became frontman for the band Alias, a position he retains to this day.

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Curci provided lead vocals on the Sheriff song "When I'm with You", which reached the number one spot in 1989, and the Alias power ballad "More Than Words Can Say", which reached the number two spot in 1990 on the Billboard charts.

BMI presented Curci with the Million-airs award for "More Than Words Can Say". According to BMI's website, only 1,500 songs have achieved Million-air status (one million air plays) among the 4.5 million songs by 300,000 BMI represented artists. One million performances is the equivalent of approximately 50,000 broadcast hours, or more than 5.7 years of continuous airplay.

In January 2009, Alias announced the release of their long delayed second album, Never Say Never , which was recorded in 1992 but not released due to the rapidly evolving music scene of that time where grunge was the new rage and metal was out. A few of the songs from this "lost" album were re-recorded and appeared on Curci's solo album Dreamer's Road, but the rest remained unreleased.

Early influences

Of Italian descent, Curci grew up in Toronto. At an early age Curci listened mostly to classical opera music. He started listening to Black Sabbath and other rock music in his teenage years. Aside from opera music, some of Curci's musical influences were Lou Gramm of Foreigner and Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers. [1]

Before Sheriff, Curci performed in Italian wedding bands in Toronto. [2]

Songwriting career

As a Billboard top 10 hit songwriter, Curci co-wrote with his Sheriff and Alias bandmate Steve DeMarchi the number 2 hit song "More Than Words Can Say", and the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks number 18 hit song "Haunted Heart". He also co-wrote most of the songs on the Alias album, his solo album Dreamer's Road and the Zion album.

Curci is also a songwriter for the motion picture industry. In 2007, Curci's songs were featured in several episodes of the Lifetime's Army Wives. [3] Curci was the primary composer for the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (2000–2001), and also wrote the title theme.

In addition to DeMarchi, accomplished writers Curci has collaborated with include Brett Walker; Jeff Paris; [4] Romina Arena; Jason Hook; his wife, Lara Cody; F. Grossi; Donny Hackett and Douglas Vallance.

Discography

With Sheriff

With Alias

Solo albums

Solo singles


Compilation inclusions

With Zion

With Who's Your Daddy!

Singles with Alias

YearSong US Hot 100 US MSR US A.C. UK Singles Album
1990"More Than Words Can Say"2-2-Alias
1990"Haunted Heart"-18--
1991"Waiting for Love"13-1787
1991"Perfect World"90--- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Soundtrack

Filmography

Footnotes

Citations

  1. ↑ Information about Curci Archived April 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , mindspring.com
  2. ↑ Video interview of Freddy Curci, www.freddycurci.com.
  3. ↑ "Army Wives Soundtrack (2007)". ringostrack.com. Ringos Track. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Alias – Alias". discogs.com. Discogs. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  5. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - July 25, 1994".
  6. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - October 10, 1994".
  7. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - March 27, 1995".
  8. ↑ http://www.whosyourdaddymusic.comwww.whosyourdaddymusic.com Archived December 1, 2021, at the Wayback Machine

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