Barfly

Born in London, England Fredo Viola spent the first five years living in England and Rome. After that his family moved to New York, then Los Angeles, where he spent most of his adolescent years, singing professionally as a boy soprano and studying art once his voice changed. Finally he moved back to NYC to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Fredo studied to be a film director, and during this period discovered the music of Bartok, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, which had an immense effect on him. It has since developed into a passion for the operas of Benjamin Britten, Mozart and the work of Alfred Schnittke. Fredo enjoys anything imaginative and eclectic, and has soaked up the music of Belle and Sebastian, Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Joni Mitchell, Biff Rose, Harry Nilsson, Harry Nilsson  and Odetta. In 2004 Fredo Viola had one of his songs licensed for use in Jonathon Demme’s Manchurian Candidate. After he had his first music video, The Sad Song, which was a pretty huge hit on the net receiving emails from Roger Ebert, Massive Attack, Neil Gaiman, ABC News Now, and director Mike Binder, all offering opportunities. Signing with trés chic French music label, Because Music in 2006