Biography
Manuel De Peppe was born in Milan. He has studied acting, music, dubbing, vocal, piano, drums in the C.T.A. academy of Milan. At the age of 14 he passed the S.I.A.E. musician/composer examination... And the same time he began to work with advertising commercials and fashion photography. In 1986 he played the character of "Matt" (the drummer of Beehive) for the broadcast Italia 1, in an Italian TV series "Love Me Licia" (35 episodes). In 1987 he performed the same number of episodes for the 2nd season of "Love Me Licia", where he was becoming very popular. In 1988 he played the character of Gabriele in the TV fiction "Don Tonino" (6 episodes of 100 minutes) working with Gigi Sammarchi, Andrea Roncato and Vanessa Gravina on Italia 1 again. Manuel performed in the 2nd season of "Don Tonino 2" (8 episodes of 100 minutes), but it is on the broadcast Canale 5 this time. In this fiction, the character that Manuel played was completely different from "Matt". In this case, he was able to demonstrate his acting skills some comedy scenes and some dramatic scenes. He has received positive reviews from press and is well received by the fans: both children and adults. He received many fan letters.
For the Italian label Nuova Fonit Cetra Records, he recorded 2 single records with the hits "Il Mondo Siamo Noi" and "Una Donna Da Poco" which he performed in the "Nuovo Cantagiro Festival" (on RAI 2). He was the guest on a lot of important TV shows such as Raffaella Carra's TV show "Ricomincio da due" (on RAI 2), "Gibly" (on RAI 2), "Domenica in" (on RAI 1), Sabato al circo (on Canale 5), Super classifica show (Italia 1), and more. On 23 December 1990 Manuel D. was invited to the Campidoglio in Rome where he was awarded the "Oscar Dei Giovani 1990" as the discovery of the year as an actor/singer. In 1992 he recorded another single CD "Come Stai" produced by Toto Cutugno. In 1993 he played the role, Marco, in the TV series "La Röda La Gira", on TSI 1 (Swiss television). Manuel composed many popular jingles for TV and radio commercials (MTV Italy, Tamagotchy, Push Pop, Polaretti, Tanya, Tifosotti, and more). He owns a fully equipped digital recording studio in Milan. He organized, presented and participated in various theatre shows, (among the others he presented in 1995 the show "Quelli di domani", together with the model Cannelle, on stage of the Teatro Nazionale of Milan). In January he was awarded the "Tokymeky 97" prize of the Japanese anime festival in Milan. He composed and arranged the theme for "Tokymeky 98". In 1999 He composed and arranged the song "A Paola "and he performed it with Milan children choir. In 2000 he recorded a new pop dance single "Que Calor" (in Spanglish). He collaborated with many Italian singers, producers and songwriters like Ivana Spagna, Toto Cutugno, Danilo Amerio, Piero Cassano, Andrea Lo Vecchio e Popi Minellono. He composed, arranged and performed a soundtrack for a new musical TV series "Ballet". He was the guest on the Swiss TV show "Compagnia Bella" (on TSI 1) and he performed the theme of "Ballet" (English version). Manuel moved in USA and he has a lot of collaborations with many great American producers and artists.
