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Singer Roc Flowers World Musician - New Release "Always Searching For Freedom"!

Born Pietro Nannucci in Prato Italy in 1999, Roc Flowers moved to the United States at the age of 2 and lived also in Morocco and Spain and began to write and sing in English but also Italian, Spanish and French.
Passionate for music, he listened to diverse genres and artists. He started to write lyrics and music at age 16 and evolved in a multi-genres artist, hip hop/rap, NuJazz, pop, reggae with deep messages to his fans and listeners as well as eclectic techno music producer presenting his own DJ sets.

Roc Flowers words:
"My vision is to create art that transcends borders and boxes. I want to collaborate and create with artists from all over the world while experimenting with all kinds of sounds and genres, making music that empowers human beings. Exploration and innovation are the key. There are infinite ideas in the air and it is up to us to grab them and turn them from something mystical into something material "

He participated to several collaboration projects with international artists and musicians from various countries and genres like Fabrizio Bosso (jazz/Italy), Stefano De Donato (funk/Italy), Sonny King (hip hop/rap/USA), Ismaila Mbaye (ethnic/Senegal), Antonio Farao' (jazz/Italy), Burcu Karadag (ethinic/Turkey), Mario Rosini (jazz-pop/Italy) and achieved multiple awards at the Global Music Award and a nomination at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2021.

With his collaboration as Pablo Nannucci on the album Music for Love Vol.1 he received a co-publishing agreement for "Cantabile 2.0" by the family of the great pianist and composer Michel Petrucciani for the lyrics and interpretation of that song, the license by Damian Marley and Universal Music for "Speak Life 3.0", original song part of the Grammy Award winner album by Damian Marley, for his lyrics and interpretation, he also had his first original song published "Ego" in the same album.

"Speak Life 3.0" received a nomination in the Rap/Hip Hop category at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
"Speak Life 3.0" music video was featured during NAMM 2021 in Los Angeles in the MarkBass program.

https://youtu.be/FooWOXNgfMY

He signed with Music for Love / QJP Music recording label in 2019 just before the Covid pandemic started.

Roc performed a live event presentation of his work in Florence, Italy with his band in February 2021 (including Stefano De Donato and Riccardo Onori) and published 3 singles during summer 2021, "Ride your Bike", "Solea" and "Celestity".

The partnership and collaboration with platinum records winner, music producer & bassist Stefano De Donato allowed him to make important steps to produce his debut album Always Searching for Freedom and his collaboration in the "O'Vision" project, an album with internationally known musicians like Fabrizio Bosso on the trumpet and Max Ionata on the saxophone.

Music video collaborations:

2022 singles releases

"Yes You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhCHDUshBI

"Song of Sun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Lgrp02KPw

"Blue Valentina" featuring Manna McLeod released Sept 12th 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Y_TQDvbfw

"Ghosts on the Moon" released Sept 22th 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWF3-qz3Zw

Always searching for Freedom
Debut album released on October 22th 2022

"O'Vision" released on October 3rd 2022
Debut concert : Assisi, Italy Saturday October 8th 2022 POSTPONED
QJP music project and album in collaboration with Fabrizio Bosso, Max Ionata, Stefano De Donato, Toti Panzanelli and others musicians, where Stefano De Donato composed and produce the music and Roc Flowers lyrics and voice.

EP Release
One Perfect Love released December 2022 an idea of QJP Music & the late Ras Denroy Morgan, is an EP that includes a remake of Denroy Morgan's recent single "Slavery Offences" and the original track One Perfect Love. Music and arrangements are by Stefano De Donato, lyrics and voice by Roc Flowers and Denroy Morgan.

This project is dedicated to Denroy Morgan and his legacy, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the humanitarian projects of the Morgan Family in Jamaica.

Live performances
November 9th 2022 - Roc Flowers Trio @ International Indie Music Festival in Kerala India



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