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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Entertainment
GRAND BAHAMA, The Bahamas - Italian R & B, pop, dance, and sometimes rock singer, Sushy is in Grand Bahama shooting her latest music video. The island offers an idyllic shooting venue for its diverse and lush locations on and off the water. Her new music video is called, "Water" and scenes were also shot in Florida. From the tender age of 5 Susanna Galimi alias "Sushy" started piano lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Milan, she spent most of her childhood travelling especially the USA with her family and thanks to his father she's grown up listenin' to the Black Music and the Masters of Jazz. As a child, all Sushy wanted out of life was to become a singer, and she was driven by the music of Michae l Jackson, Mariah Carey, Nina Simone, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin, Lauryn Hill...and her first loves rock'n'roll myths Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and Bryan Adams. Sushy was a very unique teenager, and went through phases as a painter, photographer,actress and dancer. She spent several years as part of the club scene in Milan, singing guest spots and performing for TV shows. She was so at ease in front of the cameras that at the age of 6 she made her first television appearance as mini assistant beside the most famous Italian showman "Mike Bongiorno" gaving numerous vocal performances during the show.
At the age of 13 she began learning to play the classic guitar which soon became her favourite instrument for composing her own stuff and it was around this time that she began writing material in English.Following her passion for black music at 15 she joined a gospel choir which lead to a role in the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” with Carl Anderson and Amy Stuart. At this time she met Cristiano Cesario,they hit it off immediately and thanks to the German music teacher Guido Block they formed the “Sushyband”, with a repertoire of Sushy's own material and soul, r&b,rock covers highlighting her extreme talent and versatility in interpreting her best loved artists.The world soon spread around the music community of this great new talent and in no time she began collaborating with various Italian and international artists,songwriters, recording studios and labels from all over the world. In 2008 she was asked by Ben DJ to sing and write vocals for his new album.She wrote with Cris the track single "Me and Myself " and with a phenomenal remix package by the talent texan Dj Wolfgan Gartner the song was played by some of the music industry’s most influential deejays like Pete Tong "Ministry of Sound's" in UK and reached number 6 in the "USA Billboard Dance Chart". Thanx to the New Yorker Label "Nervous Records" Sushy performed at " The Radio Energy Event Anniversary Blast 2008 " in S.Francisco and then in Seattle with Lady Gaga,Cindy Lauper, Michelle Williams(Destiny’s Child) and many other stars. In 2009 Sushy attended the "X Factor" auditions in Italy but she refused to join the TV show for the love of her English own songs. Thanks to Universal Music Italy distribution she released her own unconventional Italian album "faccio quello ke voglio" alias "I do what i want". When it didn't work out Sushy sang the Italian Anthem, "Inno di Mameli " for the commercial tv spot "Calzedonia" changing the lyrics and it turned into a scandal!She became a feminist heroine and despite the criticism of politicians ,the new "Sushy's Anthem " was a success even though the "TV Spot" was banned.
From that moment on Sushy hated to sing in Italian, she never signed with any Italian label and she continued her solo career setting her own label up: "The We Can! Records". Sushy came out together with Dj DAB with "Grease",the noted Bee Gees song remixed in contemporary House taste.She keep writing and singing and in 2010 thanks to the Melodica Records she released Bendj's whole album "Smile" and she watched it to climb Beatport and ITunes House Dance Charts. Many tracks like "The Mistress" (released by CR2 UK Records ) and "I'm in love" were very appreciated and played by the most famous UK BBC RADIO 1 Djs Pete Tong, Andy Norman, by Roger Sanchez and Erick Morillo who included the track "Sorry" in his "Subliminal Session Annual Compilation". Sushy has signed with Universal Music France and she's working on her own English debut album.
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