Manuel De Peppe is an Italian actor, pianist, keyboardist, drummer, composer, arranger, and producer. He spent the majority of his career as an actor and singer, but in 2005 moved to the United States primarily as a composer, music producer and arranger.
Manuel De Peppe was born in Milan, Italy in 1970. He spent most of his early years studying acting, music, dubbing, vocal, piano, and drums at the CTA (Centro Teatro Attivo) in Milan, and at age 14 he passed the SIAE composers examination. Around the same time, he began to work in advertising, acting in commercials and as a model for two years.
Actor
In 1986, De Peppe played the character of "Matt" (the drummer of the band Beehive) in an Italian TV series called Love Me Licia, his first major role in broadcast television. He followed this up from 1987 to 1993 with a series of soap operas and television films, such as Licia Dolce Licia (Licia sweet Licia) and Don Tonino. In the Don Tonino series, De Peppe demonstrated his skills in both comedy scenes and dramatic scenes. He received positive reviews.[citation needed]
Music
In 1993 De Peppe started to compose, arrange, and producing music for different TV Networks. He collaborated with others including Peer Music, Bill Champlin, Tamara Champlin, Piero Cassano, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Ivana Spagna, Toto Cutugno, Marco Grasso, Pablo Manavello, Jorge Luis Cachin, Martha Cancel, Bernadette O'Reilly, Anthony Fedorov, Clara Serina, Franco Fasano, Danilo Amerio and Ariztia. In 2008 he reunited the band Bee Hive under the new name of Bee Hive Reunion and composed and produced a new single "Don't Say Goodbye". In 2011 Bee Hive Reunion toured Italy.[1] De Peppe released singles as a solo singer. During His career, Manuel created, composed and arranged a lot of famous Commercial Jingles for European TV Channels like: Tamagotchy, Polaretti, Push Pop, Tanya Walking, Ralph, Pasqualone, Zaini Stranamore, Cicciobelli Amicicci, Giocheria". "BeBe Lou", and many more. Since 2022 is working as a composer/arranger on the soundtrack for a new cartoon series Amicicci inspired to the popular European toys "Amicicci produced from the iconic toy's company Giochi Preziosi. Manuel sings also the opening theme and the internal songs of each episode.
Hosting
1995 Hosted "Quelli Di Domani" at Teatro Nazionale of Milan, Italy.
2010 Hosted "Miss Italia USA California 2010" in Sausalito, California, USA.
Recognition
In 1990, De Peppe was invited to the Campidoglio in Rome where he was awarded the "Oscar dei giovani" award as artist of the year.
In 1997, De Peppe was awarded the "TOKYMEKY 97" prize of the Japanese Anime Festival in Milan for his musical and production contributions.
Discography
1986 - Love me Licia e i Bee Hive (drummer)
1987 - Licia dolce Licia e i Bee Hive (drummer)
1988 - Tutti in campo con Lotti/Tu con noi (singer)
1989 - Per te Armenia - Italian Singers together for Armenia (singer)
1990 - Il mondo siamo noi/Una donna da poco (singer)
1991 - Il meglio di Licia e i Bee Hive (drummer)
1993 - Le canzoni di Licia (drummer)
1999 - Paola (in duet with Enzo Draghi) (singer, arranger, producer, composer, pianist, keyboardist, drummer, programmer)
2000 - Que calor - Luz Latina (featuring singer as Manuel D.)
2017 - You - Live version (singer, arranger, composer, lyricist, producer)
2017 - This is Christmas time - Re-Mastered (singer, composer, lyricist, arranger, producer, pianist, keyboardist, drummer, programmer, Studio engineer)
2017 - What child is this? - (singer, arranger, producer, keyboardist, drummer, background vocalist, programmer, studio engineer)
2018 - Oltre la neve - (composer, arranger, producer, keyboardist, bassist, pianist, drummer, programmer, studio engineer)
2018 - A pesar de la nieve - (composer, arranger, producer, keyboardist, bassist, pianist, drummer, programmer, studio engineer)
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