Born in Sussex, Carlo Villa is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer who began writing music seriously at 17 and was broadcast on BBC Introducing. More recently, he was selected by BBC Talent:: Sound First and will be taking part in the BBC Sound Designers Workshop. Working with the poet, Imogen Grover, the piece will feature on BBC Radio 3 'Between the Ears: Words First meets Sound First' episode on Sunday 22nd February 2026 at 19.15.

He has built up a strong presence across many social media platforms and retails his work through BandCamp, Apple Music and Amazon. He won the Reddit Grammy for Best Singer Songwriter 2021 for his self penned piece called Happy to Forget.

His previous albums include Typocast, In the Midst of a Lull, Short Changed, See You Tomorrow, The Cows Have Come Home and Far. He has made a series of unplugged recordings in an old garden building entitled 'From The Potting Shed'.

He has scored several plays including 'Our Country's Good' and 'Who Cares' as well as completing an Indian inspired soundtrack for the audio book project called 'Ramayana' for Audio-verse. In 2024, he contributed several original pieces for a new musical, commissioned by Mark Tunstall, including the opening and closing number entitled 'Always Young', broadcast on Radio 2. This musical has just completed a successful run Off-Broadway at the Theatre for the New City in New York.

He has produced and mastered an album of meditative music called 'Medit8 - Empower' for Ella Ringrose and Sylvia Villa, and Mermaiden for the composer, Sylvia Villa. 

Carlo wrote the complete musical score for the British independent feature film called 'Pops' by award winning director, David Thackeray, where he performed and recorded the entire instrumentation. Pops has since been nominated at Cannes Film Festival 2025 and has won the best comedy film at the Amsterdam New Film Festival.

More recently, he completed the soundtrack for Lydia McNulty's new short film, Mayflies, starring Ashna Rabheru, Sally Phillips and Madeleine Spooner, who also wrote the script.

2026 promises to be a year of live performance.