Carlo Villa

Biography

Born in Sussex in 1999, Carlo Villa is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer based in Kent. He began writing music seriously at 17 and was broadcast on BBC Introducing with his instrumental track entitled Thrown Together (produced by Alex Franklin).

He has since 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. He has just finished producing and mastering an album of meditative music called 'Medit8 - Empower' for Ella Ringrose and Sylvia Villa. He has also contributed a number of songs, (including the opening and closing number, 'Always Young') for a new off West End musical commissioned by Mark Tunstall.

He is currently working on a forth-coming new album of music entitled 'Poet's Corner' to be released in early 2025. Prior to this will be the release of a self penned French language EP called 'French for Beginners' which includes 'Bof', 'Je Pense' and 'Mon Fromage'.