Shade (rapper)

Vito Ventura (born 10 December 1987), known professionally as Shade (Italian: [ˈʃaːde]),^[1] is an Italian rapper, singer and voice actor.^[2][3]

Shade
Background information
Birth name	Vito Ventura
Born	(1987-12-10) 10 December 1987 (age 37) Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Genres	Hip hop pop rap
Occupations	Rapper singer
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Warner Music Italy

In 2013 he won the second edition of the freestyle battle show MTV Spit^[4] and debuted with the studio album Mirabilansia (Warner Music Italy) in 2015.^[5]

Together with Federica Carta, he participated at the Sanremo Music Festival 2019 with the song "Senza farlo apposta".^[6][7]

As a voice actor, he dubbed in Italian several films, TV series and anime, most notably Sonny Wright in Inazuma Eleven: Ares, Ugly Dog (Pitbull) in UglyDolls, and L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) in the live-action film Death Note and its sequels.^[8][9]

Discography

Studio albums

• Mirabilansia (2015)
• Clownstrofobia (2016)
• Truman (2018)

Singles

• "Cambiare stato" (2014)
• "Mai una gioia" (2015)
• "Se i rapper fossero noi" feat. Fred De Palma (2015)
• "Stronza bipolare" (2016)
• "Odio le hit estive" (2016)
• "Bene ma non benissimo" (2017)
• "Irraggiungibile" feat. Federica Carta (2017)
• "Amore a prima insta" (2018)
• "Figurati noi" feat. Emma Muscat (2018)
• "Senza farlo apposta" with Federica Carta (2019)
• "La hit dell'estate" (2019)
• "Allora ciao" (2020)
• "Autostop" (2020)
• "In'un ora" (2021)
• "Tori seduti" with J-Ax (2022)
• "Pendolari" (2023)
• "Lunatica" (2023)