Biography
Marco Corrao is a Sicilian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, born in 1981. He began his musical path in Sicily in the late 1990s. His writing draws from Sicilian popular music, from Italian and American songwriting and from an in-depth study of the Delta blues, from Charlie Patton and Son House to Robert Johnson.
His vocal style, soulful and rugged, and the fluid slide guitar that accompanies it are the result of his dedication to African-American roots and of a live practice built on international tours in the United States, Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
Among the artists he has collaborated with are Eugenio Finardi, Moni Ovadia, Giuseppe Milici, Francesco Cafiso, Giorgio Rizzo, Michele Gazich and Pippo Guarnera. Over his career he has opened concerts for Charlie Musselwhite, Dana Fuchs, John Primer (longtime guitarist with Muddy Waters), Dirk Hamilton, Michael Burks, Damon Fowler and Sherman Robertson.
Since 2013 he has been the artistic director of the Capo d'Orlando Blues Festival, where he curates the programming and organization of the line-up.
He has released four albums, to which in 2020 are added the works "Pietre su Pietre" and "Nebros". A fifth album is in production with the Italian-American tandem of Palermo-born Gabriele Giambertone and Jono Manson.
