Sergio Sylvestre

Sergio Sylvestre was born in Los Angeles to a Mexican mother and a Haitian father.[1] In 2012, Sylvestre visited Southern Italy as a tourist. He later decided to move to Salento, and became the singer of the band Samsara Beach in Gallipoli.[2]

Between 2015 and 2016, Sylvestre rose to fame as a contestant of the 15th series of Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi, eventually becoming the series' winner, beating runner-up Elodie.[3] In May 2016, Sylvestre released his debut extended play, Big Boy, composed of four new songs and four cover versions of international hits.[4] Big Boy reached the top spot of the Italian Albums Chart, and was later certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.[5][6] The single with same name was also certified gold in Italy.[7] In Autumn 2016, Sylvestre should have embarked on the Big Boy Live Tour, including ten concerts throughout Italy, but the tour was later canceled due to other projects.[8][9] He later recorded the song "Prego", Italian end credit version of the song "You're welcome", in a duet with Italian rapper Rocco Hunt, featured on the soundtrack of Oceania, the Italian version of the animated film Moana.[10]

In February 2017, Sylvestre competed in the Big Artists section of the 67th Sanremo Music Festival, performing the song "Con te", co-written by Italian singer-songwriter Giorgia.[11][12] The song was included in his first, self-titled, full-length album which was released in Italy on 10 February 2017.[13] On 17 November, of the same year, Sylvestre released his first Christmas album, titled Big Christmas.[14]

• Sergio Sylvestre at AllMusic