EMANUELE FIZZOTTI vocals, guitars, mandolin, 5 strings banjo
MARINA SCHIAVINATO vocals, harmonica
GIORGIO BERTELLO bass, backing vocals
LUCA ROFFINO drums


The Soulful Numbers offer a repertoire ranging from jazz standards such as “The man I love” or “Summertime”, to pop songs from the likes of Cindy Lauper (“Time after time”) and Norah Jones (“Sunrise”), from hits by The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Bob Dylan to classic blues (“Stormy Monday” and “Sweet Home Chicago”), from the soul of Aretha Franklin to the vintage rock’n’roll by Elvis, Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran.

The 5 strings banjo and the mandolin lend a country-folk feeling to many of the songs, and the distinctive sound of the dobro, a metallic guitar, takes the listener back to the smoky atmosphere of the Mississipi juke-joints.

In November 2007 the Soulful Numbers played with Carmelo La Bionda at the "San Babila Theatre" in Milan.

Carmelo La Bionda is a famous Record Producer and owner of the Logic Studios in Milan (studio where recorded artists such as Paul Young and Laura Pausini among the others), disco dance artist who recorded many a hit like “One for me one for you” with “I Fratelli La Bionda” and wrote soundtracks for several movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

MARINA SCHIAVINATO

Italian singer-songwriter, Marina began writing songs and playing the guitar when she was fourteen years old.

In 1993 she attended the “Music Reading Method by Goitre” given by the “Armonia” Vocal Group and won the “Human Life Wonder” European Contest for students organized by the “Movimento per la vita”.

Since 1993 Marina has been singing and playing acoustic guitar in various local groups such as “Nove in Italiano”, in which she sings Italian songs and “Tin Fizz Acoustic Cocktail”, in which she performs classics by The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman, Carol King, etc.

In December 1998, at a tribute to Lucio Battisti held at the “Villani Theatre” in Biella, Marina sang a highly applauded version of “Aver paura di innamorarsi troppo”.

In 1996 she took private singing lessons from Marco Farinella, who graduated from the Lichtenberger Institut für Gesang und Instrumentalspiel in “Gisela Rohmert Functional Voice Method”, and more recently she has taken private lessons at the “Voiceland laboratori vocali” where her teacher was Paul Rosette, who graduated at the “Vocal Institute of Technology” in Los Angeles, and who has worked with world-famous stars such as Mina, Celentano and Eros Ramazzotti amongst others.

In 2003 she sang “In my dreams”, a song written by the Melody Makers included in the soundtrack of Dario Casetti’s short film “Come mi immagini”, which was presented at the 2003 “Torino Film Festival”.

Since 2004 she’s fronting the rock & soul band "Soulful Numbers" singing classics by Aretha Franklin, Eva Cassidy, Janis Joplin, Mavis Staples and more.
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday singing a few jazz standards.