Manu Delago

Manu Delago at Wiener Konzerthaus by Julia Wesely

Manu Delago (c) Wiener Konzerthaus / Julia Wesely

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Genre(s): Global
From: Tyrol, Austria
Management: mgmt@tomtanzer.com
Label: www.tru-thoughts.co.uk/
www.sessionworkrecords.com/
www.olirecords.com/artist/manudelago/
Contact: contact@manudelago.com
Website: www.manudelago.com/
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BIOGRAPHY

Two times Grammy-nomminee, composer, percussionist and innovator Manu Delago started his solo career in 2007 when he uploaded a video onto Youtube. The solo piece “Mono Desire” was the most popular Handpan video on the internet with over five million views and charted in the Top 30 music videos.

Since then he released several album and toured with different ensembles worldwide. His LPs feature various guest artists such as Erik Truffaz, Andreya Triana or Douglas Dare and won over tastemakers from BBC 6Music’s Tom Ravenscroft and Don Letts to Radio 2’s Alex Lester, Nitin Sawhney and Jamie Cullum, and was supported by i-D, Clash and DJ Mag.

The Austrian musician has regularly collaborated with various artists such as Björk, Anoushka Shankar, The Cinematic Orchestra, Olafur Arnalds and has appeared as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Metropole Orkest and many more. He has performed in more than 50 countries around the world and completed two extensive concert tours by bicycle. On the so-called ‘ReCycling Tour’ (2021 and 2023) his band & crew performed around 20 shows along a 1000 mile bicycle route, carrying all their equipment and instruments in bike trailers.

Manu Delago uses his signature percussive skills, rotating band of multi-instrumentalists as well as electronic manipulation to create dynamic, high-concept explorations which harnesses the best of his adventurous spirit and unique vision

“A masterful and sensitive musician” – The Telegraph

“Virtuoso” – The Times

“Dreamy acoustics” – XLR8R