Giovanni Edgar Charles Galletto-Savoretti (born 10 October 1983), known professionally as Jack Savoretti, is an English-Italian acoustic singer, songwriter, and musician.
He has released seven studio albums to date: Between the Minds (2007), Harder Than Easy (2009), Before the Storm (2012), Written in Scars (2015), Sleep No More (2016), Singing to Strangers (2019), Europiana (2021) and Miss Italia (2024).
[5] Moving around Europe as a child, he ended up at the American School in Switzerland where he picked up an accent he describes as "transatlantic mutt".
When his mother gave him a guitar and suggested he try putting some of his words to music he was "surprised how much more people listen to you when you are singing than if you read a poem".
Throughout February and March 2008, Savoretti embarked on a solo mini-tour of Caffè Nero bars in the UK.
The track "Soldier's Eyes" from Between the Minds played over the closing credits of the second episode of the fifth series of Sons of Anarchy.
A competition was set for fans to cover this song and submit to the Facebook page in order to win the chance to tour with Savoretti.
Starting his UK leg of the tour at The Borderline, Savoretti showcased the new material whilst also appearing to have something else up his sleeve with a song called "Crazy Town".
[16] Before the Storm re-ignited Savoretti's passion for songwriting, taught him how to put himself in his songs and, crucially, led him to the musicians who helped him helm Written in Scars – his fourth album and his first to be released by a major label, BMG Chrysalis, with whom he signed in 2014.
[18] The singles "Tie Me Down", "Home" and "The Other Side of Love" were playlisted and championed by BBC Radio 2, where Savoretti appeared as a guest on the shows of Dermot O'Leary, Chris Evans and Richard Madeley.
[22] The official video for "The Other Side of Love" premièred in March 2015,[23] and stars the actor Rafe Spall.
To mark the album's release, Savoretti embarked on a sold-out headline UK and Ireland tour, which took in cities including Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and Leeds before finishing with a sold-out show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, which was given a four-star review by Emily Jupp of The Independent.
He also had a sold-out show at the Hammersmith Apollo, and played at a special event in the centre of the elegant small Italian village of Portofino.
[27] Promoted by an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Singing to Strangers became Savoretti's first number-one album on 24 March 2019.
[29] Miss Italia produced three singles: "Come Posso Raccontare", "Senza una Donna" (a collaboration with Zucchero) and "Ultime Parole", featuring Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia.
On 6 June 2024, Savoretti performed "Soldier's Eyes", from his debut album Between the Minds, as part of the BBC's coverage of the eightieth anniversary of the Normandy landings.
[32] Savoretti's grandfather led the Italian partisan movement in Genoa that fought German occupation during World War II.