Федерико Паризи

Fourteen when he began studying with the tenor Gianni Venuti, Federico Parisi was born in Taormina in 1995 and grew up with classical technique and Italian popular song side by side. Youth competitions and concerts brought him to notice, and he became a member of The Four Italian Tenors, touring North America and beyond with opera arias, Neapolitan songs and twentieth-century Italian standards. He also sings as a soloist in concerts and on television. Venuti was from Messina, the Città di Taormina award came in 2012, and in 2014 he reached the semifinals of the television competition Tu sì que vales. He was part of The Four Italian Tenors on the ensemble's first United States tour in 2019.