Umberto Porcaro - Take Me Home (2022)

Umberto Porcaro, born in 1979, has been playing guitar for the last 30 years. His passion for Blues music started in his early age, and it has brought him to play along with the greatest, international blues men. After his first experiences with local bands, Umberto visits Chicago for the first time, where he gets to perform with Billy Branch and The Sons of Blues, Fernando Jones, Eomot Rasun, Johnny Dollar.
He publishes his first record “You Belong To Me”, followed by “Burn The Day Away”, receiving a great appreciation from national and international press.
He later wins the auditions for “Obiettivo Blues In”, during the Pistoia Blues Festival, earning the chance to perform with amazing artists such BB.KING, BUDDY GUY, ROBBEN FORD, ROY ROGERS, CANNET HEAT, THE BLUES BAND and to be included in the compilation of the Pistoia Blues Festival album.
Umberto moves to the States, between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Here is where he gets to exhibit in the most famous Blues clubs of America, such as Café Boogaloo in Hermosa Beach (Los Angeles), The Saloon (San Francisco), Mojo Lounge (Freemont), and the “Biscuit and Blues” also in San Francisco.
While in California, Umberto meets other great Blues artists such as KIM WILSON, KID RAMOS, JUNIOR WATSON, KID RAMOS, HOLLYWOOD BLUES FLAMES, MURK HUMMEL e R.J.MISCHO.
He becomes very good friend with some of those performers, starting new collaborations that will bring him back to the US.
Umberto is now a well-known and appreciated musician, and he starts touring with several American performers such as Jerry Portnoy, Sonny Rhodes, Toni T.C. Coleman, RJ.Mischo, Andy Just, Pat Wilder, Texas Slim, Vivian Vance Kelly, Brian Templeton, Dave Ryley in the most important festivals and clubs of Europe. He also participates to the biggest Blues festivals all over the world: Vache de Blues (Francia), Bellinzona Blues Passion (Svizzera), Blues and Jazzy Rallye (Lussemburgo), Hookrock e Gouvy Blues Festival (Belgio), Pistoia Blues Festival (Italia); Magic Blues (Svizzera); Festival (Slovacchia).
Later on, he publishes two other records. In 2013, the album “Pleasure Is My Business” by Feelin’ Good Records in Milan, brings him to tour around Europe. Since 2015 Umberto has been performing with Voodoo Bros, a Roots music project that embraces American traditional music (Blues, Gospel, Country). With this project, he publishes “Pay My Pains” in 2017.
In 2016, with the label Kayman Records, he launches the record “El Camino Stomp”.