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Tony Blescia (Bari, 8 novembre 1972) is an Italian singer-songwriter.

He won the Castrocaro Festival in 1992. The following year he participated in the Sanremo Festival with the song Quello che non siamo, experience repeated in 1997 with E ti sento.

Tony Blescia is a singer-songwriter, composer and music producer in the music industry since 1992.

1992-1993: He wins the prestigious Castrocaro Festival for new voices, signs his first exclusive recording contract with Warner Music and takes part in the 43rd Sanremo Festival with the song "Quello che non siamo"  from his first album "Sdraiamoci su questa città". In the summer of '93, Tony is among the absolute protagonists of the Cantagiro. With the second single that gives the title to the album "Sdraiamoci su questa città" he won many contest and, in Fiuggi's final, he ranked third.

1994-1996: He writes and co-produces a series of singles, including "Dammi di più" and "Via" included in the new album "La storia di nessuno". With the hit single "Via" in the summer of 1996, he reached the 2nd place in the music contest "Un disco per l'estate" and after a few months, again with "Via" he took part in Sanremo Giovani 1996 winning and obtaining the participation in the upcoming Sanremo Festival 1997.

In 1997 he ranked third place at the Sanremo Festival with the hit ballad “ E Ti Sento,” which was inserted in the reprinted version of “La storia di nessuno.” In the same year Tony goes on tour in North America, together with Italian singer-songwriter Nek.

1998: He writes and publishes his third album "Cuori a metà" (Warner Music 1998).

After three years of composing and performing live, Tony releases the single “Tell me now ” with Edel in 2000, which explores nu garage/two step solutions, introducing a totally new sound in the Italian music scene.

2004-2005: Fascinated, as always, by the continuous research and contamination between styles and sounds, Tony starts to collaborate with various artists of the Italian Hip-Hop scene. He writes for Piotta the hit single "Non ti lascia" in which Tony appears as a featuring, and the following year Tony writes and co-produces new songs for the debut solo album of another major hip/hop multiplatinum artist: Tormento (ex Sottotono). Tony duets with Tormento in the single "Il resto è inutile" (Universal Music 2005), which tops the charts for weeks, and quickly becomes one of the top 20 best selling singles in Italy (Fimi/Nielsen)

In September 2005 he releases the single “Una regola non c'è”, the video-clip directed by  Cosimo Alema' receives a nomination in the category  “Best independent video-clip ” at M.E.I. 2005.

2007- 2008: He collaborates with RAI Fiction and Mondo Tv composing and producing the original soundtrack for KIM, a cartoon series from the Bestselling novel by Rudyard Kipling. The project is officially presented at the Future Film Festival 2009 in Bologna where it is pre-announced as one of the most anticipated cartoons of the upcoming season.

2009 Tony writes the song “Vorrei tenerti qui” released on Marco Carta’s multi platinum selling album “La forza mia” (Warner Music 2009) with over 100,000 copies sold.

2009-2013: Tony signs an exclusive deal as featured songwriter for Warner Chappell Music.

2015-2016: He is the composer and producer of the original music for the TV series in 26 episodes (co-produced by RAI Fiction) "Treasure Island" based on the best-selling masterpiece by Robert Louis Stevenson. He is also the producer, arranger and performer of the original opening theme song.His productions have been broadcasted in several countries all over the globe.


 * 1993 - Sdraiamoci su questa città
 * 1996 - La storia di nessuno (reprinted and released in a new version in 1997 for Festival di Sanremo)
 * 1998 - Cuori a metà