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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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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".
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.
| Title | Year | Peak positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWI [1] | AUT [2] | ||
| 1 Secondo | 2005 | 3 | – |
| Io vivo | 2007 | 34 | – |
| Mondo | 2012 | – | 14 |
| Zwei2due | 2016 | 16 | – |
| Title | Year | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWI [1] | |||
| "Celebrate" (with The MusicStars) | 2004 | 11 | |
| "Mammamia" | 10 | ||
| "Mare" | 2005 | 53 | |
| "Salta" | 38 |
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