Diego Poloni

Diego Poloni is an award-winner singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, music producer and sound artist. As a music producer and audio engineer he worked on 80+ recordings from well stablished Brazilian and foreign artists like Francisco, El Hombre, Àiyé (Larissa Conforto), Ventre (3), Apanhador Só, Thiago Ramil, Vitor Ramil, Breu, Paulo Chaves (2), People with Bodies, Campbell Trio, The Completers, Aline Wirley, among many others, in projects that were nominated three times for the Latin Grammy Awards (2014, 2016, 2018), nominated (2020) and won (2013) Album of the Year at the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Prize and Best Pop Album of the Year (2013, 2015) at the Açorianos Award. He is known for pushing artists towards more experimental fields and focusing on emotional performances while maintaining strong pop sensibilities. He is also a well accomplished composer of film scores and soundtracks which worked on 30+ movies, several award winners, being nominated for Best Original Film Score for "Castanha" (2014) at the 2015 Gran Prize of Brazilian Cinema. Also worked on special projects like composing and performing live original soundtracks for silent movies such as Robert Wiene’s "Orlacs Hände" (1924) and "Genuine" (1920), F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922), all three commissioned by the Goethe Institut; Mario Peixoto’s "Limite" (1931), commissioned by Centro Cultural Santander; and Tod Browning's "The Unknown", commissioned by The Ling Institute. As a sound artist he worked in several art pieces and installations, having works exhibited at the White Cubicle Toilet Gallery and Tate Modern, both in London, United Kingdom, among others. As a musician and multi-instrumentalist, he's an active member of the independent music scene, playing solo and in several groups of national and international expression from a wide range of genres like My Soundtracked Life (2003-2006), Campbell Trio (2008-Present), Trompa (2011-Present), Apanhador Só (2012-2017), Diego Poloni (2012-Present), C/open (2012-Present), Aceleracionista (2020-2021), Diego Poloni (2013-Present), Àiyé (2019, 2022-present), Cícero (2015), Kiko Dinucci (2014), Maurício Pereira (2014), Curumin (2014), Jair Naves (2014), Duda Brack (2022-present), Ney Matogrosso (2022, 2023), Francisco Gil (5)/Gilsons (2022), Filipe Catto (2023), among others. Played over 900 shows, some of them in big festivals like Lollapalooza (Brazil, 2014), Virada Cultural (Brazil, 2014), Contrapedal (Urugay, 2014), South by Southwest (USA, 2015), Vive Latino (México, 2015), Festival de Las Artes (Costa Rica, 2015), Kino Beat presents KBeats (Brazil, 2016), Dia da Música (Brazil, 2017), Festival De|Generadas (Brazil, 2019) and Balaclava Fest (Brazil, 2022), among others.