Ale Ravanello lives in Porto Alegre, South Brasil, and plays harmonica and blues profissionally since 1998. In 2001, as the lead singer and harmonica player of the Only 4 Blues Band he was invited to play at the last edition of the Miller Time & Blues Festival, which was considered the biggest blues festival at the time and counted with the most important personalities of brazilian blues. Along with the quartet formation, Ale Ravanello and the guitar player Nicola Spolidoro began, in 2000, a duet formation. Their original idea was to sound like the traditional acoustic blues and country blues duos, as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee and John Cephas & Phill Wiggins. In 2001, Ale Ravanello and Nicola Spolidoro were hired by a national luxury five star hotel chain, the Deville corporation, to do a weekly show. Since the beggining of the partnership with the Deville corporation, which still goes on, Ale Ravanello and Nicola Spolidoro became a referential in the area. They are frequently requested to play in different kinds of events, for companies and prived parties. In 2005 they produced their first album, called Duo Blues.
Nowadays, besides the duet, Ale Ravanello is the lead singer and harmonica player in the Caravan Band, that has a varied repertoire. He is also the lead singer and harmonica player in a band called The Jets, which focus mostly on the traditional themes of the pioneers of blues harmonica. Trough his carrier, Ale Ravanello developed his own frasing specially influenced by Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson (I and II), George “Harmonica†Smith and William Clarke. These influences, associated with a dedicated study of the tongue-blocking tecnique, helped him to acquire a remarkable tone and an unique sonority. Today Ale Ravanello is one of the most requested harmonica players of the state for classes, shows and jingles.
