Paolo's origins

Paolo Giovanni Nutini (born 9 January 1987) is a Scottish singer/songwriter from Paisley. His father is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany and his mother is Scottish, although his father's family has been in Scotland for four generations.

Pub performing up to 2006

Paolo Nutini, who has no formal musical training, was expecting to follow his father into the family fish and chip shop business. He was first encouraged to sing by his music-loving grandfather Jackie and a teacher at his school who recognised his talent. He left school to work as a roadie and to sell t-shirts for Speedway and spent three years learning the music business, performing live, alone and with a band, and working as a studio hand at Glasgow's Park Lane Studio.

His big chance came when he attended a concert for David Sneddon's return to his home town of Paisley at the beginning of 2003. Sneddon was delayed, and as the winner of an impromptu pop quiz, Nutini was given the chance to perform a couple of songs on stage during the wait. The favourable reaction of the crowd impressed another member of the audience, who offered to become his manager.

Daily Record journalist, John Dingwall, saw him performing at the Queen Margaret Union, and invited him to appear live on BBC Radio Scotland. Only 17, he moved to London, and performed regularly at The Bedford pub in Balham while still legally too young to drink alcohol himself. Other radio and live appearances followed, including two live acoustic spots on Radio London, The Hard Rock Cafe, and support slots for Amy Winehouse and KT Tunstall.

A part that of 2006.

Throughout 2006 he played a number of sell-out concerts in the UK, and performed at a wide variety of venues worldwide, including King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, a TV appearance on Later with Jools Holland, Carnegie Hall in New York, The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Wireless Festival, Oxegen and T in the Park. He supported the Rolling Stones in Vienna and was invited to appear with them again at the Don Valley Stadium in August 2006. He was also booked to appear at the V Festival and The Austin City Limits Music Festival, Texas later in 2006, with a European tour in the Autumn. In May 2006, he also played at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee.

On Hogmanay 2006, Paolo appeared on BBC Scotland's Hogmanay Live celebrations, after the official celebrations in Princes St. Gardens were cancelled at short notice due to abysmal weather. He performed several songs in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle for the TV audience with little or no rehearsal.

On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, Paolo performed in a concert that was streamed live via MSN Music.

Italian hot tempered guy Paolo.

Paolo is a big Celtic FC supporter and was criticised by fans for allegedly coming on stage seemingly drunk after celebrating Celtic's title win in April 2007. This has been vigorously denied by Paolo himself and his management, who said that Paolo was just mumbling as he sang, and that the set was subject to several technical problems that made him difficult to hear. In addition to this incident, Paolo also appeared to be under the influence of drugs during his performance at the music festival, Bonnaroo, in June 2007.

Paolo performed at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007 on the famous Pyramid Stage on the second day of the event. Nutini also performed at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium on July 7, 2007 with his set including a cover of Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World. He performed the following day at T in the Park, in Scotland.

Futher on 2007 year

Scottish independent TV company, Volt MediaFix are currently making a one off special documentary on Paolo's recent US tour. The program, for BBC, was scheduled for broadcast on BBC2, 10pm, Thursday 7th June throughout Scotland and Sky channel 990 throughout the rest of the UK.

His song 'Million Faces' was featured at the end of the Grey's Anatomy episode 'Testing 1-2-3' from Season 3 and is on the Volume 3 Soundtrack of the show.

His song Rewind was also played at the end of CSI:Miami episode Broken Home in season 5.

On September 17, Paolo performed on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno performing the song Last Request.

In September 2007, Paolo recorded a short radio show with imeem.com where he listed his top 10 favourite tracks and the reasons behind his choices.

In 2008, Paolos' music will also be featured in a movie adaption of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

The release that was long-awaited )

Paolo Nutini was signed to Atlantic Records in May 2005, shortly after his 18th birthday. He released his first single "These Streets as a free download in May 2006, this was then followed by his first single "Last Request" which was released on 4 July 2006 and charted at #5 in the official UK charts. In the video for "Last Request", Nutini plays the part of a robber - though this is not revealed until the end. Nutini's third single, "Jenny Don't Be Hasty", was released on 25 September 2006 and got to #20 on the UK Singles Chart. "Rewind" was Nutini's fourth single. It was released on 4 December 2006, and reached #27 in the UK.

His debut album "++++, produced by Ken Nelson (Coldplay/Gomez), was released on 17 July 2006 and immediately entered the UK album charts at #3. Many of the songs on the album, including "Last Request" and "Rewind", were inspired by a turbulent relationship with his current girlfriend, Teri Brogan, and "Jenny Don't Be Hasty" is a true story about encounters with an older woman.

Paolo has said that he will be releasing a new album in June 2008.