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Also known as Filippo Neviani
Filippo Neviani (born 6 January 1972), known by his stage name Nek, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Nek is popular in Italy and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and has performed and released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
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Filippo Neviani, known professionally as Nek, is an Italian singer, composer, songwriter, and recording artist. Born on January 6, 1972, in Sassuolo, he resides in his birthplace. His musical career began in 1991, and he performs rock music, specifically within the Italian pop and pop rock genres. Nek plays the bass guitar and uses his voice as an instrument. He has been influenced by Sting and speaks both Italian and Spanish.
He has recorded for Fonit Cetra and Warner Music Group. In addition to his music, Nek has worked in acting. His discography includes various releases, and he is recognized as a male vocalist in the Italian music scene.
Synthesized by Vinony from 31 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Europeana Sparql. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Paid Love 2
- From Stripping to the Altar
- Say You'll Love Me Flaws and All
- That down South Hood Love Ain't No Fairytale
- A Paid Love
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sassuolo, Modena, Italy
Known for
- A muso duro - Il premio Pierangelo Bertoli — se stesso2026
- Vent'anni di Sensualità a corte — Agente segreto2025
- Il Volo: All for one - Third Episode — Self2024
- Renga Nek: 20232023
- GialappaShow2023
- Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue — Self2022
- Felicissima Sera — Self2021
- Lui è peggio di me2021
- Chi m'ha visto — sé stesso2017
- Radio Italia Live 2017 - Milano2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1972
Discography
- Nek1992
- In te1993
- Calore umano1994
- Lei, gli amici e tutto il resto1996
- Laura non c’è1997
- Nek1997
- Stai con me1997
- Entre tú y yo1998
- In due1998
- Se una regola c'è1999
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 270,564
- Total plays
- 4,555,649
Tags
1. Filippo Neviani (born 6 January 1972), known by his stage name Nek, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Nek is popular in Italy and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and has performed and released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish. Nek first gained international success in 1997, when he took part in the Sanremo Music Festival in the Big Artists section, and although he didn't win, the song "Laura non c'è" (in Spanish: <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nek">Read m
via Last.fm · Nek
Key facts
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- Nek in concert at the Assago Forum, 2005
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- Filippo Neviani
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.birth_place
- Sassuolo, Modena, Italy
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.years_active
- 1991–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Filippo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Sassuolo
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Warner Music Group
- Discography
- Nek discography
- Official website
- www.nekweb.com
- Image
- Nek 2019.jpg
- Residence
- Sassuolo
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- Commons category
- Nek
- date of birth
- 1972-01-06
- Commons gallery
- Nek
- birth name
- Filippo Neviani
- pseudonym
- Nek
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- different from
- volcanic plug
- social media followers
- 124000
- influenced by
- Sting
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Nek, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Biography
- 1972–1991: Early life and first music activity
- 1992–1999: The beginning of the success, ''Lei, gli amici e tutto il resto'', ''In due''
- 2000–2007: ''La vita è'', ''Le cose da difendere'', ''Una parte di me'', ''Nella stanza 26''
- 2008–2012: ''Un'altra direzione'' and 20 years of career
- 2013–2020: ''Filippo Neviani'', ''Prima di parlare'', ''Unici''
- 2021–present: 30 years of career
- Personal life
- Discography
- References
- External links
Filippo Neviani (born 6 January 1972), known by his stage name Nek, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Nek is popular in Italy and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and has performed and released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
Nek first gained international success in 1997, when he took part in the Sanremo Music Festival in the Big Artists section, and although he did not win, the song "Laura non c'è" (in Spanish: "Laura no está") went on to become his international breakthrough as it became a major hit in Europe and Latin America that year, as well the release of his fourth and million-selling album Lei, gli amici e tutto il resto, which was his first album to also be recorded in the Spanish language. After eighteen years he performed at the Sanremo's 2015 edition with the song "Fatti avanti amore" where he reached second place.
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