I Planet Funk are ready to go! Tonight their 2009 tour kicks off from Genoa: a tour that crosses borders! Drawn by the success of the single Lemonade which anticipated the release of their greatest hits, Planet Funk will be big players in the Italian music summer and beyond. In fact, the Neapolitan band is scheduled to play several dates in Italy starting today. 19 June in Genoa and others outside national borders (Romania, Ukraine and Colombia those confirmed so far): live performances will alternate with DJ sets by the historical members of Planet.
Planet Funk achieved great success in 2002 with the album 'Non-Zero Sumness'which contained the individual 'Chase The Sun', 'Inside All The People', 'The Switch', 'Paraffin'. The success was crowned by the Italian Music Awards and the awarding of a gold disc for sales of the album, produced in two versions, one of which contains a song ('One Step Closer') made in collaboration with Simple Minds. The Planet Funk team was also summoned by other international bands to remix some tracks from their repertoire. The album 'The Illogical Consequence' was preceded in 2005 by the single 'Stop Me', the soundtrack of the Coca Cola TV commercial. In autumn 2006, their third album, 'Static', was released. The band's most successful track is probably the single 'Who Said', sung by Dan Black, leader of The Servant, who is featured on three unreleased tracks of the greatest hits. On this tour we will find on stage at the microphone Joel Edwardsthe voice of Deepest Blue, now ready to put his talents at the service of Planet, like others of his colleagues in the past.
The band may have exploded at the beginning of the millennium, but it has a well-established history behind it, having emerged from the merger of Souled Out (Alessandro Sommella, GiGi Canu and Sergio Della Monica, who today, from behind the scenes, continues to be the mastermind of Planet Funk), known in the early 1990s in different parts of the world for their single 'Shine On', and of Kamasutra, i.e. Marco Baroni and Alex Neri. Planet Funk was the title of a track produced by Alex Neri himself. Previously, the trio Sommella, Canu and Della Monica had produced several tracks abroad, including 'Stuck On Love', sung by Dee Lewis, a major radio and dance floor hit in the 1980s. Early 2009 saw the release of the group's new single, 'Lemonade', which sees a return to the sound that gave the group success and fame, namely that right mix of electronic and rock.
Dates already confirmed:
Friday 19 June - Genoa - Villa Serra, Breakout
Sunday 21 June - Jesolo (VE) - Full Moon
Friday 3 July- Verona - Autan 4
Thursday 16 July- Odessa (Ukraine) - Ibiza Club
Saturday 18 July- Saturn (Romania) - Liberty Parade
Friday 24 July - Bari - Piazza Prefettura, MTV Mobile
Thursday 6 August - Petacciato Marina (CB) - Sabbie Mobili Festival
Friday 25 September 2009 - Bogotá (Colombia) - Theatron
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