4MuLA .

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Simone Giuliani, better known as 4MuLA, is a keyboard player, composer and producer living in Manhattan, NY.

4MuLA is currently recording and producing ’Sambismo’ a project with multi-instrumentalist Zé Luis [Caetano Veloso, Tania Maria] and producer/DJ Béco Dranoff [Bebel Gilberto, Red Hot & Rio].

In 2007 he started collaborating as Digital Audio Editor with Monterey Jazz Festival Records/Concord Music Group with Grammy Award-winner Jason Olaine working on new rare releases of Miles Davis Quintet, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Tito Puente among others.

4MuLA writes music for TV and movies: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS News (Logo/VH1), E! Entertainment Tonight, the TV movie “A Raisin In The Sun” featuring Sean P. Diddy Combs and John Stamos, the original soundtracks of "Little Gold Men" and "Blindspot" are some of his credits.

He gave birth to two electronic music projects: Racoon and Lazybatusu: both of them appear in more than 100 electronic/downtempo compilations released worldwide and reached the Top 10 Music Chart in iTunes Store for Electronic music.

He's the founder of Emunity Records, a digital label that focus on future-lounge, nu-jazz and ambient soundscapes.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

• He pursued studies of Jazz Piano & Improvisation with Stefano Bollani and Ray Santisi, piano teacher of Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, at Berklee Music Schools Clinics. He is frequenting The Juilliard School, studying Advanced Orchestration with Daniel Ott and Composition with Conrad Cummings.

• He was part of the British act Global Soul Movement until 1999 and collaborated with Mercury Awards-nominated producer Drew Horley (TY, Natalie Williams, Bugz In The Attic, Roots Manuva), a friendship that still lasts to this day.

• On the music business side, he's Director of Digital Initiatives for Festival Network, the legendary company founded by George Wein in 1954 that created the Newport Folk Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival series but most importantly launched the model of music festival as it's known today.

• In 1998 he toured with Psychic Phenomena, a 10-pieces organic hip-hop ensemble opening among others for The Roots.

• In the early 90s, he toured Italy with the punk-rock cult band Diaframma and recorded four albums with them.

• In 1991, with Francesco Cipriani and Kareem Bennett he started Funkareem, one of the few original and real future-funk/hip-hop acts in Italy at the time, following the steps of A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots and Living Colour