Manuel De Peppe

Manuel De Peppe was born in Milan in 1970.
He has studied acting, music, dubbing at the C.T.A. Academy of Milan, Italy.
He studied piano in the Scuola Civica Musicale of Milan, vocal training with Eloisa Francia and Marylin Turner, drums with the famous drummer Tullio De Piscopo.
At the age of 14, he passed the S.I.A.E. musician/composer examination and at the same time he began to work with advertising commercials and fashion photography.
In 1986, he interpreted the character of "MATT" (the drummer of BEEHIVE) for the broadcast ITALIA 1, in an Italian TV series “LOVE ME LICIA” (35 episodes).
In 1987, he performed the same number of episodes for the 2nd season of “LOVE ME LICIA”, where he was becoming very popular.
In 1988, he played the character of Gabriele in the TV fiction "DON TONINO" (6 episodes of 100 minutes) working with Gigi Sammarchi , Andrea Roncato and Vanessa Gravina on ITALIA 1 again.
Manuel performed in the 2nd season of "DON TONINO 2" (8 episodes of 100 minutes), but it was broadcast on CANALE 5 this time.
In this fiction, the character that Manuel played was completely different from “MATT”. In this case, Manuel was able to demonstrate his acting skills both in some comedy scenes and some dramatic scenes. He has received positive reviews from the press and was well received by the fans, both children and adults. He received many fan letters.
For the Italian label NUOVA FONIT CETRA RECORDS, Manuel recorded 2 singles records with the hits "IL MONDO SIAMO NOI" and “UNA DONNA DA POCO” which he performed in the “NUOVO CANTAGIRO FESTIVAL” (on RAI 2). He was the guest on many important TV shows, such as Raffaella Carra’s TV show “Ricomincio da due” (on RAI 2), “Gibly” (on RAI 2) , Sabato al Circo (on Canale 5), and others....
On 23 December 1990 Manuel was invited to the Campidoglio in Rome where he was awarded the “OSCAR DEI GIOVANI 1990” as the discovery of the year as an actor/singer.
In 1993, he recorded another single CD “COME STAI” produced by Toto Cutugno.
In 1993, he played the role, MARCO, in the TV series "LA RÖDA LA GIRA", on TSI 1 (Swiss television) with Paolo Ferrari and Yor Milano directed by Vittorio Barino.
Manuel composed many popular jingles and soundtracks for Italian and Swiss Television like Polaretti, Tamagothcy, Push Pop, Tifosotti, Tanya Dancing, Ralph, Tanya Waliking, Zaini Stranamore, Pasqualone 2000 and more....
He organized, presented and participated in various theatre shows, (among the others, he presented in 1995 the show " Quelli di domani", together with the model Cannelle, on stage of the TEATRO NAZIONALE of Milan).
In January of 1997, he was awarded the “TOKYMEKY 97” prize of the Japanese anime festival in Milan.
He composed and arranged the theme for “TOKYMEKY 98”.
In 1999, He composed and arranged the song "A PAOLA "and he performed it with the Milan children choir at Tokymeky (Dubbing oscar in Milan).
In 2000, Manuel recorded a new pop dance single "QUE CALOR" (in spanglish) for South America music market.
He collaborated with many Italian singers, producers and songwriters, such as Ivana Spagna, Toto Cutugno, Franco Fasano, Alex Baroni, Andrea Massimo Fantozzi, Danilo Amerio, Piero Cassano, Ninni Carucci, Andrea Lo Vecchio e Popi Minellono, Carlo Gargioni, Andrea Zuppini, Marco Grasso, and more....
He composed, arranged and performed a soundtrack for a new pilot musical TV series “BALLET”.
Manuel moved to the USA in 2002 and has been collaborating for the world publishing PEER MUSIC in Miami and L.A. and with many great American producers and artists: Pablo Manavello, Bill Champlin of legendary bands Chicago and Sons of Champlin, Billy Hufsey (Star in TV Series Fame), Jim Brickman, Martha Cancel, Bernadette O’Reilly, Ayhan Sahyn, Ariztia, Bill Cantos, Bague, Jorge Luis Chain, Adam Nierow, Peter Habib, Tony Amodio and many others.
Currently, Manuel became BMI member as a songwriter and publisher and also He opened his own production indie label and publishing company located in New York.
They’re producing soundtracks for Europe and USA and producing new singers. One example is the Italian singer-songriter-bassist Tony Amdio, he just came out with an album named "Deja vu'" in Spanish and Italian published in South America, Italy, Switzerland and Asia. It's available also on I TUNES and CDBABY.COM
The famous American journalist Chuck Taylor wrote a great review on Billboard USA in May 2007, also the Italian magazine Musica e Dischi.
He's also producing the Bee Hive Reunion project.
On March 14 2008, Manuel became a dad! His son name is Yuma.
He was born at North Shore Hospital in Long Island, NY.