About
Giovanni Vial is a singer-songwriter, composer, and arranger. Believing that music can be like a camera lens, Giovanni seeks to capture stories of fleeting moments blending elements of jazz, classical, folk, and contemporary styles. Giovanni uses this multi-stylistic approach to offer his personal experiences to others, to give others a space to reflect on their own, and to ask questions which spark larger conversations on the collective human experience.
Giovanni’s most prominent influences range from commercial experimenters like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson to interpreters like Frank Sinatra and Jeff Buckeley to classical composers like Beethoven, Scriabin, Ravel and Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as international songwriters like Silvio Rodriguez and Lucio Dalla.
Born to a first generation Italian-American father and a Colombian mother, Giovanni grew up immersed and inspired by his cultural inheritances. His immigrant mother, a linguist and poet, was of particular artistic influence for exposing Giovanni to the musicality of language. As a result, Giovanni writes in English, Spanish, and Italian. Growing up in the Bay Area, California, Giovanni began piano lessons at 7 and formal voice lessons at 12.
Giovanni is earning his degree in Professional Music with concentrations in Music Business, Performance, and Composition at Berklee College of Music. He has been greatly influenced by members of the Berklee faculty such as Steven Santoro, Jesse Taitt, and Elena Koleva. He has been involved in small and large scale shows, most notably a Boston Berklee Performance Center event Singer’s Night (Spring of 2023) as well as abroad in Spain with Un Lago de Conciertos (Spring of 2024) and at The Artist in Valencia for a small record label showcase (Stargazer; Spring of 2024). Currently, he is in the process of recording his debut singles “Awakening” and “Mind If I” which will be released June of 2025.