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ERICA OPIZZI
WILDWOOD FLOWERS
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Born in 1980, she started singing in her childhood and taught herself playing guitar and harmonica.
Many years later, she studied singing with the soprano Yolanta Stanelite. At the age of 18, she started singing american music; since then, she has been singing with many different old time, bluegrass and country rock bands.
One of these, the Hard Trails, was selected among the best american traditonal music inItaly to participate at the recording of the album “Country in this country” (Ethnoworld).
In 2004 she worked in the Gardaland Park as singer and guitarist at “Western village”. Very important was her collaboration with the international renown blues armonicist Fabrizio Poggi and his group Chicken Mambo with whom she took part as chorist in many concerts in north Italy and on 4 albums.
Among these, the folk american album “Spirit and freedom” (Ultrasound Records 2010) was awarded “disc of the year” by the italian specialised magazine “Buscadero”. At the same recording artists such as Blind boys of Alabama, Guy Davis, Debbi Walton, Michey Raphael, Flaco Jimenez took part.
In 2012 she got the 1° prize in the international competition “Tidone Folk”. She has performed at events like Folk Fest, Townes Van Zandt tribute, Buscadero day, Vernasca Buskerdays.
Since 2010 she has been performing both in North Italy and Germany as a solist and in collaboration with outstanding musicians belonging both to classical and american music.
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