Kety Fusco

Biography

Kety Fusco begins to play the Harp at the age of 6 and shortly after she is admitted to the Conservatory. She soon begins to participate at International Contests and receives important awards. Being always a curious person she decides to experiment new musical worlds and in 2012 participates at a three week campus of M. Mogol: Kety was able to compose a pop song that was selected as one of the best songs and was performed at the final closing concert. Not yet covinced to complet the formation with the classical music in 2013 she attende the Master of Arts in Music Performance at the “Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana” where she obtained, 3 years later, the title of Master with excellent results and in this years Kety has played as first harp with several orchestras, in Italy and in Switzerland. The years of the conservatory, however, have left a deep trace: the music has led to an extreme form of autism that the psychologist himself called “autism of the harp”; Lost contact with the surrounding world and not completely satisfied with the work done, she decided to experiment with a new instrument, the Electric Harp. Facing again a tormented time but determined and convinced to have taken the right direction, begins various collaborations and In January 2018 she composed her first song “Floating Fragments”, a unique composition of its kind, created with electric harp, loop machines, synthesizers, sub. Of classical inspiration but with electronic / experimental influences, Kety does not forget the lesson from the great musicians including Alva Noto, Yann Tiersenn, Jon Hopkins, Terry Raley. In Aogust 2018 Kety was invited to play the Swiss anthem with her electric harp at the 71st edition of the Locarno Film Festival, in front of the president of the Swiss confederation Alain Berset. The journey as an independent artist is traced: the songs “Tears & Drops” and “Moving in the Dark" come out. Kety Fusco plays her first live concerts with electronics sets in September 2018 and the same month she organizes her Italian Tour that will see her in concert in Rome, Milan, Florence, Pisa and Lucca in January 2019. The first single of this year called "Medusah" and will be released for the label United Solists. Kety will leave for a European Tour calling Space Harp in May-June 2019 and playing in important cities, prestigious places and international festival like Rockomotives, Il Festival dell'Amore, OpenSound Festival. Medusah was the first song, which launched Kety in the beginning of a great career: in May 2019 Kety Fusco signs with the label Sugar Music, known for being the most important record label independent in Italy, among which there are great Italian artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Arisa, Negramaro, Motta and many others. Kety plays in september 2019 in the most prestigious hall of the Federal Parliament in Bern, on the occasion of the end of the legislature. Her song Medusah comes in the top 3, at the M4Music Festival of the Demotape Clinic's contest.
Kety is nominated for the Swiss Live Talents in Bern in the electronics category and she has called “ The Queen of the Electric Harp”. Finally Kety will release her debut album D A Z E D for the month of march and with which she has already received a great deal of interest.

Tags: production, electric harp, electronicmusic, electricharp, soundtrack, film music, harpist, harp