| BIOGRAPHY Lo Galluccio is a vocal artist, poet, performance artist and journalist. Born in Boston, Lo left home after receiving a B.A. from Harvard College and studied acting at the renowned Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. Despite a scholarship to return, she was inspired by avant-spoken word artist Laurie Anderson's records to move toward and to develop an original voice. After performing at several major regional theatres, she returned from a tour of Greece hungry to write and compose songs. Armed with an acoustic guitar and a Tascam 4-track --and moving from sublet to sublet-- Galluccio wrote Queen of Mars, an elegy for her late father Tony Galluccio. She also completed a collection of poems called "Hot Rain" which attracted the attention of Jazz Passengers band leader and sax man, Roy Nathanson. Together they wrote "The Underground Man Song" for the In Love CD on Windham Hill's High Street label. In the mid-90's, she, Roy, Dave Tronzo and Brad Jones played in a band called FishPistol which delighted audiences in many downtown clubs, mixing her surreal and distinctive lyrics with the virtuosity of the other players. Lo follows up her first solo CD on the Knitting Factory label, Being Visited, with a quirky and beautiful collection of jazz standards, original blues, spirituals and other collaborations with players in Boston. The new CD's called Spell on You and features "Feel Like" a rock blues collaboration with Dave Tronzo (Lounge Lizards, Spanish Fly), an eerie version of "I Put a Spell on You", a gospel inflected "Que Sera Sera" and a collaboration with avant-rock band Soultronix leader Jim Pugliese called Back Porch. Creamsplit, the opening track on Being Visited appeared in an independent feature film and in 1998 won her a track on John Zorn's compilation CD of TRex/Marc Bolan tunes. CD DiGuardia of the Northeast Performer had this to say about Spell:: "Galluccio's voice is like a sonic massage, her breathy tones so enchanting that her breath can be felt on the listener's right ear as if she were standing directly behind through some feat of digital conjuring. This girl has got it going on with her own tunes and with other works. The Lo must go on." - INFLUENCES Patti Smith, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Billie Holiday, Bjork As a writer, Lo�s chapbook, Hot Rain, was released on Singing Bone Press in 2004. She�s also had poems published in Ibbetson St. magazine, Abramelin, Night magazine, Heat City Literary Review (memoir � The Ganesha Factor,) The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Bagel Bard Anthology, I am from Lower East Side, strangeroad.com, Lungfull!, among others. She also serves as the Poetry Editor for the Alewife newspaper with a monthly column called, "Words and Music." She�s reviewed poetry books for Lyn Lifshin, Hugh Fox and many others for The Ibbetson St. Press. Her poem Millennium was nominated for a Push cart prize in 2006. PAST PROJECTS Fall 2003 Fire of Life, original rock musical at Durrell Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Spring 2003 MAAT, a Boston University thesis film by Yolanda Markopoulou, performed, "I Put a Spell on You" with saxophonist Willie Sordillo 2000, New York City Raw Films Production, Lo covered "I Love a Man in a Uniform" with John Rokosny and Andriette Redman 1999 "Rocket of Love", a dancetrack commissioned by Al Gorgoni of Lightstream Productions. 1999, New York City, Swedish Festival, East Village Video by Stephano di Roma with original soundscore by Michael Burlingame. Lo is featured as herself and Queen of Mars. GO BACK TO LO'S HOME |