Member Since: 10/8/2006
Band Website: nicolafarnon.com
Band Members: Piero Tucci - keyboards, alto and tenor sax, accordian.
Chris Walker - guitar.
Phil Johnson - drums
Influences: erm....mainly a mix of jazz and funk and a bit of pop, latin and classical....Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Ella, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day, Jimmy Hendrix, Earth Wind and Fire, Herbie Hancock - funky and jazz, George Benson, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Monk, Bill Withers, Ron Carter, early/mid Michael Jackson, Dexter Gordon, Count Basie, Duke, Tower of Power, Beatles (guitar solo in 'I'm Down' was my first attempt at air guitar - did loads of practise...), Miles, Chet, Frank Sinatra, Elgar and Dvorak cello concertoes, Lewis Taylor, D'Angelo, loads of funky and latiny tunes on tapes that I don't know who are by...,The Isley Brothers, Bach studies/suites for solo cello, John Martyn, I Surrender - (Rainbow, Diana Ross), Ooooh Child Things are gonna get Better - Hi-Five, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, quite alot of bits and pieces of classical and romantic composers, Tempted - Squeeze, Nat King Cole, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Robert Farnon, Peggy Lee, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Jackson 5, Sounds of Blackness. Tito Puente, lots of Salsa music...erm...I'll get back to you...
Sounds Like: erm...a swinging old slapper....?
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None