Luigi Masi is tagged as: britpop, rnb, gay, dance-pop, brazilian When it comes to ultimate pop star names, they don’t come much better than the one chart sensation in waiting Luigi Masi was born with. It’s almost too good to be true. “You know what, people think I’ve made it up all the time!” laughs the fresh-faced 18-year-old singer-songwriter. “They’re always asking ‘is that your real name?’ I’m like ‘yes, unless my parents have been lying to me all my life!’ Ask Luigi about his exotic background and it all begins to make sense. Born in San Paulo, Brazil to his half-Italian/half-Brazilian father and half-Danish/half-Swedish mother (“I guess that makes me Scando-Italian-Brazilian,” he jokes, “so I just cut it short and call myself ‘international’ it’s easier”) Luigi found himself moving to London as a child when he first started developing his musical flair. “I got into pretty much everything I could. I was in the school choir, played piano, took violin lessons,” he says. “But the thing is, I’ve always been a massive pop fan. Hear’Say was actually the first gig I went to, I’m not ashamed to admit. I used to always be glued to CD:UK every Saturday morning just taking it all in and absorbing it all for future reference.” It wasn’t until Luigi turned 16 that he really began his po... Read More About Luigi Masi Biography... Send Luigi Masi ringtones to your cell |
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