Pacific
Gino De Crescenzo, in art Pacific, it is born to Milan 5 March .
Its family is of origins bells: the mother is of ; the father is of , in .
After the diploma of accounting, Gino bachelor with the maximum of the ballots in political sciences (the final thesis is on the political crime), specializing itself in the problems of the job and the social relations.
Musician self-taught, sound in concert and in order to compose. The first points of reference are Lucio Batistes and i Beatles, to which they are placed side by side very soon Jeff Buckley and Prince. To the grammar school sound in its before band, called The Drop, with which it toes make one's debut from the alive one to the age of 16 years in a festival parochial of Gaggiano, a common one of ; later on it explores various musical styles joining to formations fusion, jazz and rock.
Gino De Crescenzo, not still Pacific, in I found i Rossomaltese: to half of , on the wave of the two album "Santantonio"and"Free flies", the group becomes one of the more interesting truths of the from Milan alternative circuit. In the Rossomaltese Gino sound and he is author of musics: the idea to make the singer does not graze it not even, much less than to make the singer solista. In it collaborates with the director Roberta Tower: it composes the sonorous column of the cinematographic musical comedy "South Side Stori"and of the teatrale show"Instead that to one to the two", that happening to the Stable Theatre collects a remarkable one of .
"the collaboration with Roberta Tower for the musical comedy"South Side Stori"he has been fundamental for my artistic increase" - it explains today Pacific - "because together to musics, that I since compose the times of the grammar school, I have begun to write also the witnesses. Much useful arena has been one: I have written songs every day for four months ".
Become author to all round, Gino De Crescenzo exactly records a demo for proporsi like author: the idea to make the cantautore continuous not to graze it. The artistic producer Paul Iafelice (already collaborating of Fabrizio De Andrè and Vinicio Capossela) intuisce the autobiographic force of those songs and convinces Gino to sing them in first person: a simple one demo is transformed therefore in the solista debut of a cantautore from absolutely brilliant the musical and literary intuitions (as they will demonstrate the prestigious acknowledgments that it will receive, between which Tenco plate in for the album Pacific like better work before). Gino adopts the stage name of Pacific and in it publishes omonimo the album of debut, also thanks to the entusiastico contribution of Titti Santini (Ponderosa Music & Art) and of Riccardo Vitanza (Words & Outskirtses) as executive producers (in the case of this last one, with its agency of communication Words & Outskirtses, also as office it prints).
"Pacific"(the disc) is made endured to notice for the irony, the depth and the intensity of the songs, between which they enunciate"The postino", "My words", "Very fine"and"The Pharaoh". Pacific (the cantautore) obtains acknowledgments of great prestige immediately: in it receives Prize Grinzane Cavour (to the inside of the Recanati Prize) for the text of "My words"; it is adjudicated Tenco Plate of omonino the Tenco Prize for the better work before; it gains the category "Emergent Italian"in the referendum anniversary of the review"Music & Discs". The personal gratifications continue in 2002 with Prize of the Critic to the P.I.M. (Italian Prize of Music) organized from the weekly magazine "Music"of"Republic"and from Deejay Radio.
"they are pointed out to Me on the cantautorale scene with much titubanza: also being satisfied and proud of my disc, I was not still completely convinced that that one was indeed my road. To remove the last doubts it has contributed to me Samuele Bersani, that it was in the giuria of Recanati Prize 2001 and they has telephoned me for dirmi how much was piaciuto the entire album ".
The esteem of Bersani for Pacific is transformed soon in friendship and evolve professionally in the cover of "My words"that Samuele records in its greatest hits"That life!" () and in the participation of Pacific to the tour of that disc ().
The album of debut "Pacific"it comes ripubblicato from the Carosello Records (to which the in the meantime executive producers Santini and Vitanza they have granted the disc in licence) in the june of 2002 with the added one of two unknown ones and in the same Pacific period it undertakes a tour summery in which it is exhibited also like supporter of great Italian artists (Daniel Silvestri and Luca Carbons) and international (Cousteau; after that in November 2001 it has made from supporter in the tour Italian of i Kings Of Convenience). Important protagonist is pure festival as Arezzo Wave, Tora Tora and Giffoni Music Concept.
In 2002 the disc of Bersani with the cover always exits of "My words", than the two artists they will execute with in the tour successive. And pure Adrian Celentano it is entrusted to the compositivo talent of Gino De Crescenzo, than company the text of the brano "The steps that we make"inserted in the album"In order always". To new horse between the 2002 and 2003 single one of Pacific "Very fine"it resists more for 10 consecutive weeks between sold discs and for 4 months between the 50 transmitted songs more from the radios. The video omonimo goes in high spin on main issuing the musical ones, remaining for an entire month to the first place between the clip more programmed gives All Music.
After the experience with "South Side Stori" of Roberta Tower, the roads of Pacific and the cinema return to intercross themselves in the film "It remembers you of me"of Gabriel Muccino (exited in February 2003). Gino is protagonist of the sonorous column with two songs: "The Pharaoh"(from the pluripremiato disc of debut) and above all the title-track"It remembers you of me", with which one nomination to the Silver Tapes is adjudicated in the category"better song". The cd single "It remembers you of me"(that it contains also"The Pharaoh", "Very fine"and"My words") it exceeds diecimila the sold copies. Always in 2003, from February to you open them, Pacific participates to the tour of Samuele Bersani: not like supporter but like special host, in fact it is exhibited to half of the concert singing "Very fine"and"One light"(brano then unknown and today part of according to album"Light music") and duettando with Bersani in"My words".
In the summer of 2003 the illustrious collaboration of its the short but intense solista career arrives ennesima: Frankie Hi-NRG MC company the direction (with Laura Chiossone), the subject and the scenario of the video "The eyes to the sky", new single feature from the debut disc. The video "The eyes to the sky"it is adjudicated Italian Videoclip prize 2003 like better independent realization to high budget. The society between the two artists continues in the album "I was an independent one"of Frankie Hi-NRG MC, than duetta with Pacific in the piece "Black spirit".
of Pacific it is opened with its first participation to Festival di Sanremo with the brano "Only a dream", to which it follows the publication ( 5 March, day in which it has completed 40 years) of the new entitled album "Light music"(on label Ponderosa Music & Art in licence to Carosello Records). In this according to Pacific disc it boasts an other illustrious collaboration: Ivano Ditches duetta with he in the brano "To little hours".
In it has written for Simona Bencini(formerIt diverts on Cuba) the brano "This voice"; the 21 July of the same year has been officially conferred to Pacific the special mention to Lunezia Prize 2005 for the album "light Music".
The next album of the from Milan cantautore would have to exit in January 2006.
In its concerts Pacifico(voce and elettroacustica guitar) it is entrusted to the maestria of Diego Baiardi(keyboards),Johannes Bickler(battery),Camillo Bellinato(basso)e Silvio Masanotti(guitar elettrica), than accompanies it in the tour in turn for Italy.
