Gino Vannelli
Gino Vannelli has been one of the most dynamic and enduring artists since his 1970 debut. The singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer is in what must be a small class of artists who have scaled the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop, rock, adult contemporary, R & B, club, jazz and classical charts. He hit his stride in the mid-‘70s with bold albums appealing to all of those audiences and more while centering his lithe, soaring, and virtuosic vocals with total conviction. A hot streak of gold records in Vannelli’s native Cananda culminated in Brother to Brother (1978), a platinum album featuring the Canadian number one hit, “I Just Wanna Stop” also a Grammy-nominated Top Ten U.S. hit. Since his second Canadian platinum album , Black Cars (1984), Vanelli has moved steadily from one unpredictable project to the next, including Yonder Trees (1995), Canto (2002), and Wilderness Road (2019)
