About
Giovanni Vial is an Italian-Colombian American singer and composer. Artistically, he is like a frustrated outdoor cat trying to capture the scent of a moment. The result: a passionate, driving mix of acoustic, orchestral, and electronic sounds rooted in jazz, classical, rock, and various other contemporary styles. Giovanni searches for the points of intersection between individual human experiences through storytelling that calls people to recognize themselves in each other.
Lately, Giovanni is inspired by and learns from the music of Chopin, Scriabin, Rosalía, Paco de Lucía, The Strokes, U2, Lucio Dalla, Silvio Rodriguez, and Nujabes.
Born to a first generation Italian-American father and a Colombian mother, Giovanni grew up immersed and inspired by his cultural inheritances. His immigrant mother, a linguist and poet, was of particular artistic influence for exposing Giovanni to the musicality of language. As a result, Giovanni writes in English, Spanish, and Italian. Growing up in the Bay Area, California, Giovanni began piano lessons at 7 and formal voice lessons at 12.
Giovanni is earning his degree in Professional Music with concentrations in Music Business, Performance, and Composition at Berklee College of Music. He has been greatly influenced by members of the Berklee faculty such as private instructors Steven Santoro and Elena Koleva. He has been involved in small and large scale shows, most notably a Boston Berklee Performance Center event Singer’s Night (Spring of 2023) as well as abroad in Spain with Un Lago de Conciertos (Spring of 2024) and at The Artist in Valencia for a small record label showcase (Stargazer; Spring of 2024). Currently, he is in the process of crafting his first single and developing an accompanying multimedia project entitled “The Midnight Hour”.