Michele Torpedine

At the 2015 Sanremo Festival, he consolidates also in Italy, through the victory of the singing competition, the success of the young boys that form the trio called Il Volo and that, together with Tony Renis, he made famous in the world and in particular in the United States of America.

In January 2012 he is hired as a consultant by the company that takes care of the affairs for Eros Ramazzotti.

On 16 July 2010, he presided over the jury at the final of the Castrocaro Music Festival hosted by Fabrizio Frizzi.

In 2007 he accused Zucchero, when the association with the artist had been over for some time, of plagiarism; in particular, he contested the fact that he credited himself with songs and music written or composed by others.

Torpedine also produced Andrea Bocelli's albums, who sold more than 2,500,000 copies of records in Europe in 1996 with the Romanza collection alone, which reached the top of all the charts. During the years of managing the image of the Tuscan artist, aimed at ensuring him a high-profile career, he was responsible for the organisation of numerous national and international events, including the Michael Jackson & Friends benefit concert held in Munich in 1999.

He is the executive producer of several of Zucchero's albums, including Rispetto, Blue's, Oro incenso e birra and Miserere; the first three alone have sold 3,200,000 copies in Italy. In 1989 he joined Zucchero in a supergroup, formed in Cortina d'Ampezzo and called Adelmo e i suoi Sorapis, which included Dodi Battaglia, Maurizio Vandelli, Fio Zanotti and Umberto Maggi. In 1990 he organised an extraordinary musical event inside the Kremlin, broadcast by RAI in several countries around the world, which saw Zucchero as the first artist ever to perform in the main seat of the Russian government. A VHS video and a double album entitled Live at the Kremlin were made of the concert in Moscow. Since 1994 he has been Zucchero's representative for Italy and privileged consultant for the rest of the world, working alongside the American record producer Miles Copeland III for the rest of the world; he therefore follows him behind the scenes of the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. With Zucchero the relationship will end in the following years.

Michele Torpedine (Minervino Murge, 1952) is an Italian record producer, television personality, drummer and music manager. He has been the producer of many renowned Italian artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero, and Il Volo, among many others.