GIADA SECCHI
Giada is a Florentine singer and actress who, after graduating as a business expert with correspondence in foreign languages, began working as a customer service and front office worker for health and wellness centers. She began singing at the age of 11 but only at the age of 14 she started taking opera singing lessons with teacher Cristina Pagliai (singer of the Maggio Fiorentino opera house). She then began studying piano with Prof. Sabrina Bessi and continued the study of opera singing with Prof. Vittorio Scali, teacher of singing at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence and with Alex Mastromarino of Livorno for modern singing with the VMS method. She graduated as a theatrical actress in 2014 at the Teatro della Limonaia in Sesto Fiorentino directed by Dimitri MIlopulos and worked as an actress and singer in the stage production of Michel Tremblay's "Le Cognate," re-adaptation by Barbara Nativi, "Ginori" by Dimitri Milopulos and Trincea di Signora with Daniela Morozzi, Amanda Sandrelli and Monica Bauco for the Teatro delle Donne. Also in prose theater, she worked with the Quintessenza Theatre Company directed by Sandro Billeri with the Firenza Guidi International School of Theater and Circus Arts. For musical theater she has been Roxie in Chicago, Mrs.Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Esmeralda in Notre-Dame de Paris, Lorraine Banes in Back to the Future, Carlotta Giudicelli in Phantom of the Opera. In 2014 she took part in Ladies - La Commedia Musicale by Ivan and Davide Cammelli, with Riccardo Fogli. She participated in numerous masterclasses on various vocal methodologies (Vocal Power, EVT, Voice Control), many workshops related to stage movement, theater acting and film dubbing. From 2012 to 2017 she worked as a radio speaker for local radio stations and as a presenter at public events. After winning several national singing competitions, she began performing with many bands in Tuscany such as Doctor B&G Machine, Pill Pink (Pink Floyd tribute band), Forever Seventy (70’s disco dance band), Apple Party & The First Ladies (50’s rock), Cruel Clock (unreleased alternative rock) and at public and private events. As a lead singer and songwriter, she maked and released 3 CDs of unreleased songs collaborating with several Italian artists. She joined Vocal Blue Trains in 2014, the year the project was born, as a light soprano. With the Florentine choir she collaborated, for some songs, in the CDs of Modà, Sergio Sylvestre and Ultimo and singed in the cities of Vienna and Moscow at music festivals. In the latter, the Florentine choir won the prestigious Gran Prix prize (a prize won by very few foreign choirs) at the 2019 edition of Moscow Sounds.