# Jack Savoretti
**Jack Savoretti** (born Giovanni Savoretti, 1983, Westminster, London) is a British-Italian singer-songwriter whose acoustic, folk-tinged pop drew on 1970s singer-songwriter traditions before expanding to include Italian pop and disco influences.
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1983 in Westminster, London; given name Giovanni[1](https://www.momyrecords.com/jack-savoretti) |
| Style | Adult alternative pop/rock and contemporary singer-songwriter, later adding Italian pop and disco[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) |
| First release | Single "Without" (2006), a minor BBC Radio 2 hit[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) |
| Breakthrough album | *Singing to Strangers* (2019), his first UK number-one album, recorded at Ennio Morricone's Rome studio[3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/) |
| Notable collaborators | Corinne Bailey Rae, Kylie Minogue, Bob Dylan, Nile Rodgers, Miles Kane[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) • [4](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d0dc00d-4b5c-435c-bd96-72a05c3d49e1) • [3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/) |
| Italian-language album | *Miss Italia* (2024), his first album sung in Italian, made after his father's death[5](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/jack-savoretti-tour-royal-albert-hall-b1275616.html) |
## Background and upbringing
His father Guido, a maritime broker, left Genoa for England in the mid-1970s; his mother, Ingrid Hepner, was a former model who moved in the London of the 1960s and 1970s.[1](https://www.momyrecords.com/jack-savoretti) Jack spent his early childhood in London, moved at about age seven to the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland when his father took a job there, and lived near Lugano, attending TASIS, the American School in Switzerland, before eventually settling back in England.[1](https://www.momyrecords.com/jack-savoretti)
Music entered through both parents. His mother, who had listened to Motown and [James Taylor](https://www.edgepedia.org/james-taylor), gave him a guitar as a teenager with the message that he should try setting his poems to music.[6](https://slman.com/life/interviews-careers/slman-meets-jack-savoretti) • [2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) His father's Italian record collection seeped in more slowly; in interviews Savoretti has said he appreciated that influence only about a decade into his career.[6](https://slman.com/life/interviews-careers/slman-meets-jack-savoretti) Visits to relatives in [Portofino](https://www.edgepedia.org/portofino) introduced him to Italian *canzone d'autore* (Italian singer-songwriter tradition of literary, author-driven songs), a passion he has tried to fuse with the Anglo-American songwriting tradition.[7](https://www.rockol.it/artista/jack-savoretti/biografia)
## Early career: 2006 to 2011
His first single, "Without", appeared in late 2006 and became a minor hit on [BBC Radio 2](https://www.edgepedia.org/bbc-radio-2), attracting the attention of [Corinne Bailey Rae](https://www.edgepedia.org/corinne-bailey-rae), who took him along on her European tour that year.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) The debut album *Between the Minds* followed in 2007 on DeAngelis Records and reached the UK Top 100; his first solo tour began in early 2008, after which the album was reissued with a bonus disc of acoustic versions.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) His songs found their way onto television and film soundtracks, including the series *One Tree Hill* and *Sons of Anarchy* and the film *The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2*, which built him an American audience.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) • [8](https://www.npo3fm.nl/muziek/artiesten/69e01d55-6408-4fea-acad-e593fb194afa/jack-savoretti)
**A career stall.** The second album, *Harder Than Easy* (2009), was recorded with musicians from [Tom Waits](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-waits)' band and [Counting Crows](https://www.edgepedia.org/counting-crows) and mixed by Grammy winner Jack Joseph Puig, but the label released it in the United States only as a download and it was not promoted as he had wanted.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) In a 2015 interview he described the deeper rupture: at 25 he decided the gap between his own aims and what his management deal demanded was too wide, wanted to keep his soulful, folk-tinged acoustic style simple, and did not feel ready to be pushed into the mainstream. He parted ways with his label and management and nearly left the music business altogether; at one point a Sony executive even asked him to change his Italian surname because it sounded too much like "world music".[9](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jack-savoretti-interview-the-former-new-paolo-nutini-on-finding-success-the-hard-way-9982632.html)
## Comeback and chart success: 2012 to 2021
Fresh songwriting inspiration revived the career. *Before the Storm* (2012), produced by the Swedish hitmakers the Suppliers and recorded in four days, earned a generally positive critical response.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805) The follow-up, *Written in Scars* (2015, BMG), was co-written with Sam Dixon and Matt Benbrook, whose prior credits include Adele, Sia, Paolo Nutini, Jake Bugg, and [Faithless](https://www.edgepedia.org/faithless), and marked his first deliberate engagement with the 1960s and 1970s Italian pop his father had favored.[10](https://codamusic.me/artists/jack-savoretti/) *Sleep No More* (2016) followed, later reissued in a special edition with the new song "Whisky Tango" and the duet with [Kylie Minogue](https://www.edgepedia.org/kylie-minogue), "Music's Too Sad Without You" (2018).[11](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jack-savoretti-interview-sleep-no-more-album-special-edition-tour-dates-john-legend-tickets-a7961031.html) • [4](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d0dc00d-4b5c-435c-bd96-72a05c3d49e1)
**Singing to Strangers.** The 2019 album *Singing to Strangers* was recorded at the Rome studio of the composer [Ennio Morricone](https://www.edgepedia.org/ennio-morricone), whom Savoretti calls his hero, with his band instructed to arrive dressed as if for dinner in Rome rather than in jeans and a T-shirt. He has described it as an attempt at "making an Italian album in English", and it became his first album to top the UK albums chart.[3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/) One of its songs, "Touchy Situation", sets music to an unused 1990s lyric that [Bob Dylan](https://www.edgepedia.org/bob-dylan) passed along through management contacts.[3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/)
*Nile Rodgers* produced the next record, *Europiana* (2021, Capitol/EMI), on which Savoretti embraced a touch of disco.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805)
## Miss Italia and later work
*Miss Italia* (2024) was his first album in Italian, released after the death of his Italian father; he has said that being in Italy helped him tame the grief of that loss.[5](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/jack-savoretti-tour-royal-albert-hall-b1275616.html) He distinguished it from translation: "It is in Italian but it is not a Savoretti record in Italian", with the collaboration with Zucchero on "Senza una donna (Without A Woman)" framed within the link between the two languages.[12](https://www.quotidianolavoce.it/cms/app/uploads/2024/04/2024-082.pdf)
In 2026 he marked twenty years since his debut with a one-off show at London's Royal Albert Hall on 23 April and launched the album *We Will Always Be the Way We Were*, recorded largely in a single week at [Damon Albarn](https://www.edgepedia.org/damon-albarn)'s 13 Studios in [Notting Hill](https://www.edgepedia.org/notting-hill); its centerpiece "Do It for Love" is a collaboration with [Miles Kane](https://www.edgepedia.org/miles-kane).[13](https://www.bandsintown.com/a/17494-jack-savoretti) • [3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/) The album's tour runs across European and UK venues into 2027.[3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/)
## Reception and performing career
Critical notice has been mixed to favorable. An early 2008 Guardian review was dismissive, while Q awarded the debut album four stars and Mojo placed him high in its playlist.[14](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/26/popandrock2) • [15](https://www.tasis.com/uploaded/documents/PDF_About_Us/publications/TASIS_Today/TASIS_Today_2008.pdf) As a live act he has built a strong reputation: aggregating 36 critic concert reviews, LiveRate rates him at 82 percent and lists him among its "Real Live Certified" artists in the top 10 percent of live performers.[16](https://www.liverate.com/artists/jack-savoretti) His live work includes the Acoustic Nights Live theater tour of Italy and Europe following *Sleep No More*, support slots with [John Legend](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-legend) and [Gavin DeGraw](https://www.edgepedia.org/gavin-degraw), and recurring summer dates in Italy.[17](https://www.operaroma.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Annual_Report_2018.pdf) • [11](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jack-savoretti-interview-sleep-no-more-album-special-edition-tour-dates-john-legend-tickets-a7961031.html)
He lives in the Cotswolds with his wife, the actor turned painter Jemma Powell, and their three children.[3](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/)
## Discography
| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 2007 | *Between the Minds* |
| 2009 | *Harder Than Easy* |
| 2012 | *Before the Storm* |
| 2015 | *Written in Scars* |
| 2016 | *Sleep No More* |
| 2019 | *Singing to Strangers* |
| 2021 | *Europiana* |
| 2024 | *Miss Italia* |
| 2026 | *We Will Always Be the Way We Were* |
Supplementary releases include *Songs from Different Times* (DeAngelis Records) and the 2018 Kylie Minogue collaboration single "Music's Too Sad Without You".[4](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d0dc00d-4b5c-435c-bd96-72a05c3d49e1)
## References
1. [Jack Savoretti, Momy Records](https://www.momyrecords.com/jack-savoretti)
2. [Jack Savoretti Biography, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-savoretti-mn0000456805)
3. [We Will Always Be The Way We Were, jacksavoretti.com](https://www.jacksavoretti.com/)
4. [Jack Savoretti, MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d0dc00d-4b5c-435c-bd96-72a05c3d49e1)
5. [Jack Savoretti: 'I make music for love', The Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/jack-savoretti-tour-royal-albert-hall-b1275616.html)
6. [SLMan Meets… Jack Savoretti, SL.Man](https://slman.com/life/interviews-careers/slman-meets-jack-savoretti)
7. [Biografia di Jack Savoretti, Rockol](https://www.rockol.it/artista/jack-savoretti/biografia)
8. [Jack Savoretti, NPO 3FM](https://www.npo3fm.nl/muziek/artiesten/69e01d55-6408-4fea-acad-e593fb194afa/jack-savoretti)
9. [Jack Savoretti interview: The former 'new Paolo Nutini', The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jack-savoretti-interview-the-former-new-paolo-nutini-on-finding-success-the-hard-way-9982632.html)
10. [Jack Savoretti Biography & Discography, Coda Music](https://codamusic.me/artists/jack-savoretti/)
11. [Jack Savoretti: 'I'm not looking for the perfect pop song', The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jack-savoretti-interview-sleep-no-more-album-special-edition-tour-dates-john-legend-tickets-a7961031.html)
12. [Quotidiano Nazionale, April 2024 edition](https://www.quotidianolavoce.it/cms/app/uploads/2024/04/2024-082.pdf)
13. [Jack Savoretti Concerts & Live Tour Dates, Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/a/17494-jack-savoretti)
14. [Jack Savoretti, Water Rats review, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/26/popandrock2)
15. [TASIS Today 2008, "What Are They Doing Now?"](https://www.tasis.com/uploaded/documents/PDF_About_Us/publications/TASIS_Today/TASIS_Today_2008.pdf)
16. [Jack Savoretti Live Tour & Concert Review Consensus, LiveRate](https://www.liverate.com/artists/jack-savoretti)
17. [Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Annual Report 2018](https://www.operaroma.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Annual_Report_2018.pdf)
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