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吳子龍 Giovanni Voneki

Giovanni Voneki is an Italian singer, composer, guitar player, actor and Tv personality. His career as an artist started in Taiwan where he is known as 吳子龍 (Wu Zilong). His debut in the Taiwanese professional show business was the leading role in the English Broadway style musical Zeelandia, Return to Formosa. In the same year as he also played a role in the Taiwanese Mandarin Musical Xiao Taiyang. In between performances he was invited in the famous Tv Show Kangxi Laile as special guest. This was his debut in the Tv industry. Right away he got discovered by the growing at the time Tv talk show 2分之一強 and became a regular guest and representative for Italy. His love for music didn't stop and worked as a singer for various international company events such as Ferrari, Gucci, Bulgari, Mercedes Benz, Poltrona Frau, as well as singing shows on Tv. In 2016 he got married to his Taiwanese girlfriend Shi Chiayu and soon moved from Taipei to Yilan. In 2019 he got invited to perform as a special guest at the Taiwanese Radio Awards. Giovanni's daughter Martina Voneki was born in Yilan in Aug 5 2020, Giovanni than stated on the news that 2021 would be the Music Year for him. In May 17th 2021 he released his first Single " I Choose Happy" in the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic. He keeps producing music and participating in various Tv Talk shows and music shows in Taiwan.

Early Life Giovanni was born in Trieste, Italy in 14 Nov 1988. His father worked as a forwarder and his mother as an elementary school teacher. Giovanni's music talent was firstly discovered by his mom who heard him singing all the time in the house and in the courtyard. She introduced him to music clarinet at the age of 8. At the age of 10 he switched to saxophone but soon quit his music studies as he didn't like the band approach. During middle school he fell in love with punk rock, mostly listening to bands like Blink 182 and Offspring. He wished to learn music again and his parents bought him an electric bass and an electric guitar. He spent all his free time playing music and listening to more rock and metal bands. In his middle's school's last year he joined a rock band named Killer Kiss in Muggia as leading singer and guitar player. He attended the DaVinci institute in Trieste which would give him a lot of free time to keep practicing music and write new songs. His music life stopped suddeny at the age of 14 when he had to take a serious spine surgery due to an acute scoliosis. While in hospital he was also abandoned by the band Killer Kiss. He joined a new band called Twilife as leading guitar player at the age of 15. His school life was particularly struggled as he was constantly bullied. He needed an escape and went to Canada for one year as a Rotary Exchange Student. In Bracebridge, Ontario his english got very fluent and his music life flourished and grew a new passion for Chinese Kung Fu. He performed and got a lot of attention in school. He went back to Italy and graduated very smootly. His band Twilife welcomed him back and soon the band became a Bon Jovi cover band with which Giovanni toured for half a year in Northern Italy. His passion for Kung Fu kept on going and made him enroll in the Ca'Foscari University of Venice, majoring in Chinese.

On the second year of University he went to a second Rotary Exchange Program this time in Taipei, Taiwan. He take a break from professional music as he was not alowed to do any work or paid performance as an exchange student. He really felt good in Taiwan and after coming back to Venice to graduate he soon returned to Taiwan to stay for good. from 2011 to 2013 he tried his luck in the show business in Taiwan but nothing worked for him. in 2013 he went on a short trip to Thailand to try his luck there. He participated to the production of the famous Korean Movie Ode to My Father. On set he met the renowned stuntman Ron Smoorenburg who pushed him to keep on trying and not give up. Giovanni saw the announcement of the casting for the Musical Zeelandia: Return to Formosa and decided to fly back to Taiwan to try again. He got the leading role and his professional career started.

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