Piero Esteriore

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Piero Esteriore performing in Eurovision 2004

Piero Esteriore (born 23 September 1977 in Laufen, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer. He represented Switzerland in Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song "Celebrate".

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Career

Of Sicilian origin, Esteriore grew up in Aesch, Basel-Landschaft and learned playing the drums when he was six. He studied hairdressing and was trained in the profession. He also pursued music simultaneously.

He auditioned for season 9 of the German Big Brother in Cologne on the episode broadcast on 16 March 2009, but left voluntarily the following week. Then in 2011, he appeared in casting for Das Supertalent . He also played the role of Gary Colman in the German adaptation of Avenue Q on the Théâtre de Saint-Gall.

In 2004, he auditioned for the inaugural series of reality television competition MusicStar on SF Schweizer Fernsehen where he finished third. Representing Switzerland in the semi-finals of Eurovision 2004, he received zero points from all 32 voting nations and failed to advance to the final.

However his debut album 1 Secondo reached #3 on the Swiss Hitparade, the official albums chart in January 2005. His single "Mammamia" placed 10th on the Swiss Singles Chart.

The follow-up album Io vivo in 2007 peaked only at #34 and stayed only 2 weeks in the Swiss Albums chart. Esteriore toured for a number of years with singer Andreas Gabalier in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

His third album Mondo was released in 2012 and on 8 May 2016, he released the album Zwei2due with a mixture of Swiss-Germann and Italian songs.

Discography

Albums

TitleYearPeak positions
SWI
[1]
AUT
[2]
1 Secondo20053 
Io vivo200734 
Mondo2012 14
Zwei2due201616 

Singles

TitleYearPeak positionsAlbum
SWI
[1]
"Celebrate"
(with The MusicStars)
200411
"Mammamia"10
"Mare"200553
"Salta"38

References

Website: piero-esteriore.com

  1. 1 2 "Piero Esteriore discography". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. "Piero Esteriore discography". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 13 May 2020.