Elea D and the Band is an exciting new international 2 to 5 piece Pop and Jazz band, bringing style and sophistication to any event or engagement. The band performs an extensive repertoire of tastefully arranged Standards, Swing, Latin and blues as well as Modern Pop hits (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Jessy J, Duffy and many more).

The band features Elea D (Eleonora) on vocals, the Spanish guitarist Andres at the guitar or the Italian Paolo at the piano, Cosimo (who perfomed with pop idols Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado, Ricky Martin, and Lionel Richie) on drums and Domenico on bass, all respected London musicians.

They already performed in many leading London nightspots such as The Ronnie Scott Bar, the Jazz After Dark, The Intercontinental hotel Park Lane, the Supper Club in Notting Hill, and many others.

Band members are all friendly, professional and dedicated performers with their own high-quality instruments and equipment. They set up quickly and unobtrusively. They are also happy to accommodate any particular needs or requests the client may have, if given a few weeks notice.

Eleonora is a professional and talented Singer and Songwriter based in London. Originally from Rome, she is rapidly putting her sophisticated stamp on the London pop and jazz scene. She has been very productive as a songwriter during the last year and she is also collaborating with London songwriters, focusing on her own music project. She has also attended workshops organised by Martin Sutton, a multi award winning British songwriter.On youtube you can find a video clip of one of her first original tracks “Inside”, for which she wrote the music and lyrics.

She had a chance to meet and play with many top musicians and now she also performs with Robin Banerjee, guitarist of Amy Winehouse. Eleonora and Robin performed in different venues and they also performed at the Fashion Playground organized by Vogue at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherd Bush Eleonora’s impressive previous experience has seen her feature as a special guest at “La Dolce Vita”, the most important Italian festival of the year with England Ex Manager Fabio Capello! She has also featured as a special guest at “Miss Italia Nel Mondo UK”- one of the most important Italian events in London. Moreover, when she was based in Rome, she performed as a soloist on the main Italian Tv channel, RAI, in october and november 2010, on the Tv show “Mezzogiorno in famiglia” and she sang with Katia Ricciarelli and Francesco Zingariello(very famous Italian soprano and tenore, during all the dates of their huge tour in the winter of 2010.

In London she was invited to sing in the prestigious Gala Night of “La Dolce Vita 2010” .She was introduced by Roberto Perrone, presenter of BBC Three Counties Radio, after giving awards to Italian Celebrities, such as Fabio Capello, Beppe Severgnini, Lavinia Biagiotti. Eleonora was really appreciated by her audience . She is known for her ability to express the deepest of emotions not only through the power of her voice but also the delicacy of her tone.

Moreover she graduated at La Sapienza University in Rome. She took a BA degree in Languages and literature, studying English, French and German. Therefore she can sing in different languages, also Spanish and Portuguese. In 2011 she took the MA in languages and translation and she got the highest mark: 110 e lode. She also won a bursary to study one year at the University of Warwick , UK, and research about her dissertation: the translation and the adaptation of the musical “Wicked”, translating both the script and the lyrics from English into Italian and adapting the Italian lyrics to the original melody.

Available line ups:
Duo (singer+ guitarist or pianist)
Trio (singer + guitarist/ pianist + double bass) or (singer+ guitarist/pianist + drummer)
Quartet (singer+ guitarist/pianist+ double bass+ drummer)

Also check out the Damizia Duo (see below) - performing traditional Italian music.

• The Damizia Duo