On the 28th at the great Gospel Lingotto for the Red Cross
Almost two thousand seats are officially sold out to attend the great concert of the Sunshine Gospel Mass Choir scheduled at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli del Lingotto organized to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Italian Red Cross
The impressive line-up directed by maestro Alex Negro together with Rodney L. Bradley, world-renowned organist and teacher, has 250 choristers, to which will be added the solo voice of Joe Nicolosi and the rousing energy of some of the most beautiful voices of the American "black music". From Harlem there will be Anthony Morgan, founder of the Inspiration Choir of Harlem, as well as soloist and "Master of Ceremony" of the Harlem Gospel Choir and the Gents of New York, with whom he won the Gospel Academy.
Torino Sette, May 2015
THURSDAY 1 JANUARY AT 21.10 - From the Palavela in Turin one of the most anticipated events in the world of figure skating
One of the most anticipated events in the world of figure skating is back in the magnificent setting of the Palavela in Turin: the Golden Skate Awards - Gran Galà del Ghiaccio. first Christmas atmosphere.
www.mediaset.it, December 2014
New Year's Eve on ice, the magic of skating to start 2015
A great Gospel choir, the Sunshine Gospel Choir, will accompany the performances of the skaters, transmitting the first Christmas atmosphere to the public
TV Zap, 29 12 2014
Journey to the most popular Christmas masses in the city. Sold out Camillians.
In via Santa Teresa 22, at the Camillians, the advice is to arrive well in advance. At midnight, with the songs of the Sunshine Gospel Choir, he celebrates Father Antonio. That won't disappoint. The Camillians of Turin have always preached and acted as Pope Bergoglio invites everyone to do today.
La Stampa, 23.12.2014
The gospel choir inspired by Reverend Brown
"Nu Season" is the new disruptive show of the Sunshine Gospel Choir, with which the group founded and directed by Alex Negro intends to retrace the entire history of African American music, from songs of spiritual origin to blues, r'n'b and hip hop influences .
La Stampa, 16.12.2014
From Vasco's rock to gospel Alex Negro and Sunshine Choir
«In Borgomanero we will debut with a show that has just been set up. A show that we will "test" right on the stage of the Nuovo ». Alex Negro, founder and director of the "Sunshine Gospel Choir", launches the "Nu season gospel tour": an appointment that undermines commonplaces about gospel. It ensures a full of energy and positivity: «The same one that gives the sun» emphasizes Negro. The front man adds: «Ask whoever attended our show last year. At first Borgomanero's audience was quite composed. Then someone started clapping. In the end they were all standing singing and dancing with us ».
In addition to the traditional songs, the ones they sang in American churches in the 1950s and 60s, we will perform brand new ones. Some of them written as pages of a musical. There is not just one gospel: we will also offer them with sounds and rhythms of African and Caribbean music ". Before getting to gospel, Negro also traveled the streets of rock and collaborated with Vasco Rossi: he opened the concerts of the «Stupido Hotel» tour. Then the experiences with Piero Pelù, Irene Grandi, Elisa. In the US, here is the meeting with Reverend Lee Brown and the arrival of the gospel.
«Today the Sunshine Choir absorbs me a lot - says the singer -. We are often engaged in large national projects. Also this year we will be the soundtrack to the gala on ice scheduled on Italia Uno for the Christmas holidays ". Alex Negro spreads his passion for singing even in a very special school, as well as on stage: "It is an initiative in the network, the academy music web" Singer Inside "which is based in Naples. It currently has seventy boys who attend classes every weekend. They challenge each other in tests then are submitted to the public's judgment on the web and on a digital terrestrial channel. Three teachers: with me there are Rossana Casale and Cheryl Porter. A nice experience". Between ancient roots and digital horizons.
The Press 04.12.2014
Christmas Gospel at the Seminary for Armenia
Sunshine Gospel Choir in concert for the construction at the Yerevan hospital of a ward with operating rooms equipped for infant maxillofacial surgery
The Eco of Bergamo, November 26, 2014
Turin: tomorrow party in Piazza San Carlo for the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross The highlight of the day is the free concert of the “Sunshine Gospel Choir”, a group known for its performances in the main theaters, at 6.30 pm.
Piedmontese newspaper, 12 09 2014
'7 days in Jazz' continues in Montemarciano
In "Purple" the Bosso-Marsico-Minetto trio broadens the musical exploration and goes deeper into this very personal research, broadening the horizons of musical vision up to incorporating the sounds of I Solisti Aquilani and the warmth of the voices of The Sunshine Gospel Choir: the result is a deliberately alluring album, enthralling in its own way, with some flashes of authentic lyricism.
Municipality of Montemarciano, Culture Office, August 2014
Bosso takes the chair In trio he plays the gospel
THE "AUTHOR NOTES" REVIEW IN PIOSSASCO
Tonight Fabrizio Bosso quits the role of artistic director of "Notes of the author", the review underway in Piossasco, his country of origin and at the Castello dei Nove Merli, at 22.15, the talented trumpet player shows up on stage with others two Piedmontese musicians: the organist Alberto Marsico and the drummer Alessandro Minetto. Their latest work, "Purple", released last November by the prestigious Verve (and turned out to be one of the best-selling records in the jazz field: it also contains an evocative version of "A Change is gonna come" by Sam Cooke) is performed for the first time live together with the Sunshine Gospel Choir (the same who recorded the title track of the disc), a choir directed by Alex Negro and composed of 40 young elements from all over Piedmont
La Repubblica, 05.07.2014
From 3 to 6 July the fifth Piossasco Jazz Festival
As usual, big names and young promises arrive on the stage in Piossasco: at Castello Nove Merli on Friday 4th Enzo Pietropaoli Yatra Quartet, Enrico Rava and Dino Piana; Saturday 5 Carolina Bubbico Trio, Fabrizio Bosso's Spiritual Trio with the Sunshine Gospel Choir; Sunday 6 Fabio Concato
La Stampa, 02 07 2014
Piossasco castle is transformed into a jazz stage
... concert at 10:15 pm by Fabrizio Bosso's Spiritual Trio, which sees two other Piedmontese, friends and travel companions of the trumpet player for some years, next to Bosso: the organist Alberto Marsico and the drummer Alessandro Minetto. Their latest work, Purple, released last November by the prestigious Verve, will be performed live for the first time together with the Sunshine Gospel Choir (the same who recorded the title track of the album), a choir directed by Alex Negro and composed by 40 young people from all over Piedmont.
La Stampa, 18.06.2014
Sunshine Gospel Choir in Piazza Chanoux for Santo Stefano
Joy, pain, happiness, hope, prayer, emotion… all this is contained in the music of the "Sunshine Gospel Choir", which will return to Piazza Chanoux, in Aosta, in Santo Stefano at 5:30 pm.
Aosta News24, 22.12.2013
Tonight at the Teatro Sociale the stage of the "Live 4 real Christmas" tour
Christmas is linked to traditional songs and brings to mind a great gospel formation that interprets "Oh happy day". Bringing this festive air to the stage of the Teatro Sociale di Biella will be the Sunshine Gospel Choir, expected today at 9 pm with a stop on the "Live 4 Real Christmas" tour. The line-up, one of the most important on the Italian scene, will present a journey into this musical genre of great charm and steeped in history. The writer and blue-jay Edoardo "Catfish" Fassio called it "one of the most spectacular and charismatic mass vocal ensembles in Italy". Active for fourteen years, he has literally infected Turin and the whole peninsula with more than 350 concerts, mainly offered for charity. In April he performed a great concert at the Teatro Nuovo, then released the eighth CD and last Saturday he played the soundtrack at the "Gran gala del ice" at the Palavela in Turin, accompanying the stars of international skating. Directed by Alex Negro, who has collaborated with artists such as Vasco Rossi, Stadio, Paolo Bonilis and Milva, the choir will offer a unique show, worthy of those from overseas. Among the voices stand out the rough and "black" one of the baritone Beppe Nicolosi and that of Gloria Bianco Vega.
La Stampa, 19.12.2013
Mythical ice stars at the Palavela gala
THE STARS of skating return to Palavela. The occasion is the Gran Gala del Ghiaccio-Golden Skate Awards, one of the most awaited events by fans, and not only, to experience an evening that combines elegance and emotion. The lights of the Palavela come on tonight at 20.30. For the public it is an opportunity to attend the performances of the best international champions of figure skating. The Sunshine Gospel Choir also embellishes the show. The artistic direction is also entrusted this year to Silvia Fontana and will be presented by Cristina Chiabotto.
La Repubblica, 14.12.2013
Borgomanero, Christmas comes on gospel notes
More than 350 concerts in 14 years of activity, a musical formation in which 500 people performed, thousands of participants in organized courses: these are the numbers of the Sunshine Gospel Choir, one of the most charismatic mass vocal groups in Italy, which is will perform tonight at the Teatro Nuovo in Borgomanero ...
Corriere di Novara, 12.12.2013
On the 14th Grand Ice Gala at Palavela with the big names
The skating stars return to the Palavela in Turin for the GranGala del Ghiaccio - Golden Skate Awards ,. During the evening, the prestigious "Golden Skate" statuettes, considered the Oscar of skating, will be awarded to the best athletes of the season. In this edition a big news: the show will be embellished by the Sunshine Gospel Choir.
Turin Sette, December 2013
ME, FABRIZIO BOSSO, MUSICIAN, FATHER, CHILD, MAN
He has just released a new album, Purple, with Alberto Marsico and Alessandro Minetto, the Solisti Aquilani and the Sunshine Gospel Choir, for the Verve (Universal Music) label.
Panorama, 09.12.2013
Fabrizio Bosso: "I love the spontaneity of jazz"
His name is Fabrizio Bosso and he is the best Italian jazz trumpeter. Let's talk about the release now. «This is the second album made together with the Turin musicians Alberto Marsico and Alessandro Minetto. It's called Purple: 9 tracks, two of which are original and the others are traditional gospel songs but revised in our own way, from prayer to the song in three quarters to go almost to hell with a crazy trumpet. But we recorded everything, with the strings of the Solisti Aquilani and the Sunshine Gospel Choir, in one day and two hours: it represents the idea of jazz that must be as spontaneous as possible. And that's what I love the most ».
Panorama, 06.12.2013
Turin Marathon and more, in thousands of runs in the heart of the city
Before departure, in Piazza Castello, the Sunshine Gospel Choir, made up of 40 elements directed by Alex Negro, will sing the hymn of Mameli.
La Stampa, 17.11.2013
Musy, crowd and emotion at the funeral: the last farewell to the former UDC councilor
Someone, among the hundreds of Turinese who crowded the Sanctuary of the Consolata for the funeral of Alberto Musy, must have been amazed when the notes of «Total praise», a gospel song, rose very high. Perhaps it was easier to expect a mournful taste of classical music as the coffin with the remains of the councilor was carried away, covered in a bed of white flowers. But the performance of the "Sunshine gospel choir", one of the most successful choral groups in Italy, brought the surprise into a ceremony interwoven with emotion and subalpine composure. Even the applause, in the crowded church, was contained
The Messenger, 28 10 2013
Gospel under the Stone King
Now the review leaves Saluzzo to get closer to the King of Stone and get to the heart: the 'heavy' protagonist of the musical event will be, on Saturday 20 July, the Sunshine Gospel Choir who will perform in the sports field of Paesana, at the oratory of S. Maria, starting at 9 pm and with free admission.
Courier of Saluzzo, 18.07.2013
Gospel of the soul echoes at high altitude
«Suoni dal Monviso», which has been bringing quality music to high altitudes for years ... The protagonist is the Sunshine Gospel Choir, a group that ... offers African-American choral and religious music. … Sixty choristers… singers of different ethnic groups, directed by Alex Negro.
La Stampa, 18.07.2013
Italian Champion: Sunshine Gospel Choir for the first of the year
Great concert wishes for Campione d'Italia on Tuesday 1 January 2013. According to the now famous tradition of the Christmas holidays, at 3.00 pm at the Salone delle Feste of the Municipal Casino of Campione d'Italia, the Tourist Board and the Municipality of Campione d 'Italia have the honor of introducing maestro Alex Negro and his team SUNSHINE GOSPEL CHOIR. The Sunshine Gospel Choir will interpret Afro-American choral and religious music with disruptive musicality and an original sound and stage impact
Varese News, 27.12.2012
Rapallo, great success for the Sunshine Gospel Choir
Il Secolo XIX, December 2012
Sunshine Gospel Choir records new album
From today (April 30) to May 5 at the Teatro Atc in corso Dante the Sunshine Gospel Choir directed by Alex Negro invites readers to attend the recording of their eighth album, with two exceptional special guests, Annette Bowen & Bazil Meade of London Community Gospel Choir the last two evenings. Mz will be present for all evenings. Dee, one of the most successful authors and singers of overseas black music.
The Republic, 30.04. 2012
IN PIAZZA SAN CARLO GOSPEL "BENEFICIAL" FOR THE CHILDREN OF SANT'ANNA
There is no more suitable music to emphasize the magic of Christmas than that offered by a great Gospel concert. And if the notes fly high to bring concrete help to babies who are just born and already in need of important medical care, the miracle of Christmas can be said to be truly accomplished. This is what will happen next Thursday 8 December in Piazza San Carlo in Turin. The appointment organized by the "Turin Via Roma" Merchants Association, in collaboration with District 1, is held by the Sunshine Gospel Choir in favor of the "Growing Together with Sant'Anna Onlus" Foundation.
ASCOM, Press Release 06.12.2011
Charity to the rhythm of Gospel at the Motor Village
In previous editions, the Mirafiori Motor Village recorded a "sold out" on every occasion in the Agorà Multipurpose Room, whose 400 seats have always been sold out. In the best gospel tradition, with pop, blues and R'n'B contaminations, the choir will sing some of the best known Christmas songs ...
La Stampa, 11.28.2011
A double cd for Dario Gay
Dario Gay is an artist who, perhaps unwittingly, has always tried to throw rays of light on the shadows, where what is interesting is hidden ... in "Everyone has a lot of history", a title that mentions and pays homage to Gabriella Ferri ... Encounters with stories from tell or share important moments of Dario and live them together with him for the first time on record. It is a story of life, lives, it is rediscovering a story, or it is rediscovering oneself. Banda Osiris, Andrea Mirò and Amedeo Bianchi, Enrico Ruggeri, Aida Cooper, Milva, Massimo Priviero, Giovanni Nuti, Viola Valentino, Rosario Di Bella, Rita Pavone, Vladimir Luxuria, Sunshine Gospel Choir are the guests who wanted to collaborate with Dario on the album .
The Venetian Republic, 03.10.2011
The Sunshine Gospel Choir for the children of Sant'Anna
The appointment is for today, at 5 pm, in Piazza San Carlo with the "Sunshine Gospel Choir" directed by Alex Negro who performs in support of the "Growing together with Sant'Anna" Foundation which for years has been following newborns already in need of important medical care
La Repubblica, 08.09.2011
Gospel in Alassio on January 2nd
There is great anticipation in Alassio for the Sunshine Gospel Choir concert, scheduled for Sunday 2 January, at 9.00 pm, in the Parish of Sant’Ambrogio.
Savona and Ponente, 30.12.2010
A Christmas in Great Concert
On RAI3 on 25 December, from 8 pm to 9 pm, here is a special of the "Gran Concerto", broadcast by Raffaella Carrà and Iapino, made in Turin by the Rai production center in an Auditorium full of happy children. To see it on TV the program is nice: to see it live it is electrifying. The kids are attentive, they move, they raise their hands, they respond in kind, and the music conquers them before it even entertains them. On this occasion, the Sunshine Gospel Choir is sung all together with the choir of the Piccoli Cantori di Torino ...
La Stampa, December 26, 2010
Christmas Gospel Choir is black music
It's Christmas in the name of spiritual black music… at the Alfieri Theater with the Sunshine Gospel Choir, directed by Alex Negro, to which is added a rich parterre of international guests.
La Stampa, 21.12.2010
Music / Sunshine Gospel Choir
... considering the times that are happening, to get some good news (the word "Gospel", in Christianity, means "good news", ie good news) I suggest you attend a concert by the Sunshine Gospel Choir
Italia Arte, November 2010
Beneficial Gospel for Haiti with the 'Sunshine Choir'
A gospel show to help Haiti's earthquake victims cope with a serious humanitarian emergency. It happens tonight at 9 pm, at the Colosseum Theater where the Sunshine Gospel Choir performs in a benefit concert whose proceeds will be used to restore the activities of the Foyer Saint Camille directed by the Piedmontese Camillian Fathers, the only hospital structure saved from the fury of the earthquake and remained to operate in precarious conditions
La Repubblica, 13.05.2010
Gospel 4 Haiti, solidarity with the Colosseum Theater
At the Colosseum Theater in Turin, the Sunshine Gospel Choir sings for Haiti… the Sunshine Gospel Choir interprets Afro-American choral and religious music with disruptive musicality and an original sound and scenic impact.
La Stampa, 12.05.2010
A Gospel concert to help Abruzzo
Sunshine Gospel in Palabrescia for the reconstruction of the Fossa school
Brescia, December 16, 2009
Sunshine, notes and charities
Brescia Today, 15 December 2009
The Sunshine Gospel concert was a great success
Last night at the Palasport in Verona there were more than 2000 people to attend the gospel concert of the Sunshine Gospel Choir organized to support Friends of Angal and Doctors Without Borders. A splendid evening of music and solidarity without borders that from last night's slogan at the Palasport of Verona has become reality.
www.amicidiangal.org, April 2009
A "Happy Day" and a "Don’t Cry" to save Africa.
The star of the evening was the Sunshine Gospel Choir, one of the best-known ensembles specialized in Afro-American music in Italy.
Corriere del Veneto, 4 April 2009
Sunshine at the Palasport of Verona
One of the best Italian groups in support of Doctors Without Borders and the Amici di Angal Association returns to perform in our city
Courier of Verona, April 2, 2009
Beneficial ice tango la Fontana skates for Lions with the Sunshine Gospel Choir
"Eyes On Ice Festival - Argentine Tango on Ice" and will be staged tonight at 8.45 pm at the Palatazzoli in via Sanremo 67 with the pianist Miguel Angel Barcos, the figure skater Silvia Fontana and Alex Negro's Sunshine Gospel Choir. It is a charity initiative that has its purpose in the title: promoted by District 108-Ia1 of Lions Clubs, it serves to finance the purchase of a vehicle equipped for itinerant eye screening in preschool centers.
La Repubblica, 27.03.2009
Rev. Bazil Meade exceptional director for Sunshine at the Teatro della Concordia
One hundred voices on one stage: the immense mass of sound will take the exciting form of the Gospel for a sung prayer of rare suggestion
Turin Sette, February 27, 2009
The Gospel is good for you
Sunshine Gospel Choir at the Regio for charity
Turin Metro, 1 October 2007
The sun never sets when the voices of the Sunshine Gospel Choir come on
Ringtone, La Casa della Musica, December 2006
Tonight for the "Suoni dal Monviso" the best choir in Italy sings Gospel in Saluzzo
It is among the most successful groups on the national scene and in 2001 it won the Gospel Jubilee Festival as the best Italian choir.
La Stampa, 06 September 2006
Sunshine Gospel Choir and the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra
After the brilliant tour of last season, a highly spectacular combination returns that accompanies the suggestions of the Afro-American tradition with the robust voice of a symphonic team
La Stampa, 3 September 2006
The Return of Lee Brown the Reverend of the Gospel
At Chicobum his gospel has now become a staple in a bill that could not be more profane with all the rock, metal, techno and whatever else it contains. So here we are introducing for the third time in the last few editions of the Borgarese festival the Reverend Lee Brown, the indefatigable minister of the most popular inspirational genre of Afro-American music who never disdains the invitation to give a pinch of sacredness to the works of this o that jazz star, from Benny Golson and Ray Brown to Ron Carter and Jimmy Cobb. This new sortie in our neighborhood instead reserves for him another opportunity to collaborate with the Sunshine Gospel Choir, the Turin choir directed by Alex Negro which has been among the best on the national scene for some years now.
La Repubblica, 25.06.2006
Cinema Music and Romance a combination of arts for the concert at the Royal Castle of Moncalieri.
AGIMUS Symphony Orchestra, Ugo Viola's accordion, the soloists Carola and Alessandro Cora with the Sunshine Gospel Choir interpret the most beautiful Film Music
La Gazzetta di Moncalieri, 17 June 2006
Reverend Brown's sermons in music
Who would have said just a few years ago that even here the gospel would have entered among the proposals of an open-air festival? Perhaps the Reverend Lee Brown, who for several years has been one of the most diligent and appreciated interpreter and popularizer on the European continent of the most popular Afro-American music of religious inspiration. Indeed, his indefatigable didactic activity must soon have put him on this notice, if it is true that the choir he directs has already trod the stages all over the world and that his performances also in our parts have immediately left their mark. Here it is therefore once again to register your name and that of the Sunshine Gospel Choir in the Chicobum program, where already last year it was among the most welcome surprises of the bill. The Barrumba Stage tonight is therefore all reserved for his fervent sermons in music.
La Repubblica, 14.06.2005
The pastor of the Gospel
Reverend Lee Brown at the helm of the Sunshine Gospel Choir in a spectacular concert of African American sacred music at the Chicobum Festival
Turin Sette, 10 June 2005
Success of the two concerts in Piazza Chanoux
Gospel for Easter in Piazza Chanoux in Aosta. Double concert ... citizens and tourists intrigued and admired by the splendid voices of the "Sunshine Gospel Choir" of Turin. Gorgeous voices and splendid costumes on stage….
La Stampa, 22.05.2005 (Aosta edition, page 41)
Moncalieri Jazz music and stars
Curtis Fuller, Dave Brubeck, Chico Freeman: they are the stars of the 7th edition of "Moncalieri Jazz", the international festival that for two weeks will offer concerts, workshops and film screenings in different parts of the city and also a couple of "Sound Crossings" at Orbassano and Nichelino. On the 14th at the «Pertini» theater in Orbassano, the concert of the Sunshine Gospel Choir.
La Repubblica, 05.11.2004
Reverend Brown's off-season gospel
The dynamic Rev. Lee Brown, called to bring his off-season gospel to the warm stage of Borgaro, is back tonight at the Chicobum Festival. An experiment that has already been successful, that of proposing the least secular among the black music on the limelight of a summer festival, so much so that this formation originally from Kansas was the protagonist of one of the most surprising and crowded concerts of the past edition of the Chicobum , thus earning the invitation to appear on that bill again this year. Used to lead complexes made up of dozens of elements, the Reverend of Topeka, who in the past has also tried his hand at theater playing a leading role in a staging of A Tram Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, has all the necessary charisma to involve any audience in the performance of his Freedom Family & Sunshine Gospel Choir.
La Repubblica, 26.06.2003
Castelnovo Sotto applauds the virtuosity of the Sunshine Gospel Choir
Success beyond expectations for the ensemble directed by a masterful Alex Negro. It was a success: over 600 people in the church, at least 100 people were unable to enter, a proceeds of € 2,500 ...
La Gazzetta di Reggio, January 2003
The contagious joy of a choir
Libero, Piacenza 07.01.2003
The concert of Reverend Lee Brown myth of the gospel
"A bird that sings in winter on a bare tree shaken by the wind" is the image that Reverend Brown has of peace: the ability to sing and spread serenity and joy even when everything around you seems to waver and tremble. "I am that little bird" he added "and I sing because I believe there is always hope, as long as there is mutual respect."
Biella online, November 28, 2002
Assault on Fnac with the songs of Misia, Capossela and Sunshine Choir
Assault on Fnac, last night, the new megastore of culture, music and technology that inaugurated its Turin office. The doors, in via Roma 56, opened wide at 7 pm only for the guests, however a crowd, while the very strict security service blocked any posting at the entrance. Guests of honor the Sunshine Gospel Choir, the fado singer Misia, Vinicio Capossela accompanied by a string quintet and piano.
La Repubblica, 23.05.2002
"I DON'T LEARN GOSPEL, I AM GOSPEL" Rev. LeeBrown
... The choice to collaborate with Sunshine derives mainly from the didactic and friendship bond that unites him to the two directors, Alessandro Negro and Claudio Fabro, his students since 1995 in the Freedom Family ...
Torino Sette, Interview with Rev. Lee Brown, 05.11.2001
Littizzetto e Sunshine Gospel Choir al Festival Teatro Donna di Porto Venere
Si inaugura questa sera a Porto Venere, il Festival Teatro Donna, con Luciana Littizzetto nello spettacolo "Sola come un gambo di sedano".La Littizzetto, nella sua molteplice veste di scrittrice, attrice e musicista, dà anche prova delle sue qualità di musicista, suonando alla tastiera l' entrata del "Sunshine Gospel Choir" con il quale interagisce nel corso della serata.
La Repubblica, 21.07.2001