Valerio Piccolo is a movie and book translator, writer, songwriter and singer from Rome, Italy.

Since 2006 he has constantly performed in New York songwriters clubs like “Rockwood Music Hall”, “The Living Room” and “The Bitter End” under the artistic supervision of Mike Visceglia (Suzanne Vega’s long-time art director and bass player, and also bass player for artists like John Cale and Jackson Browne).

In Italy he has been on stage with Suzanne Vega from 2000 to 2005 for a “reading-concert” on Vega’s poetry book “The Passionate Eye”.

From 2007 to 2012 he has been the opening act of Suzanne Vega’s Italian show.

In 2007 he released his first album, almost entirely recorded in New York City, called “Mahattan Sessions”.

In 2010 he released a mini-EP with two songs in English, called “Union Square”.

In 2011 he recorded a duet with Suzanne Vega, “Suono nell’Aria/Freeze Tag”, released in Italy and included for two months in the playlist of Radio2, the most popular Italian public radio. The duet was part of an EP called “Suono nell’Aria”, released in Italy in 2011.

In 2014 he released a new album, “Poetry Notes”: 9 songs out of 9 poems written by 9 American contemporary poets/novelist/songwriters (Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Nick Flynn, Suzanne Vega). He toured the US from March to June, with more than 30 events, from the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City to The Bitter End, including a coast-to-coast radio promotional tour. Music videos from “Poetry Notes” were premiered on GQ and Huffington Post’s websites.

In 2015, he toured Spain for a little premiere of his upcoming album “Poetry Notes”.

In June 2018 he released his new single, “Hourglass”. The music video of the song – an animated video between comic books and shadow play – premiered on Esquire magazine.

In 2019 he released his fifth album, Adam and the Animals, written together with Rick Moody. The album was performed on various national and international stages, including the Brooklyn Book Festival and Amnesty International’s Voci per la Libertà (Voices for Freedom).

In addition to his musical career, he is also known as a translator and adapter for books, theater, and cinema. Since 2000, Valerio Piccolo has translated and adapted dialogues for over 350 films, including works by renowned contemporary directors such as Steven Spielberg (“The Post”, “The Fabelmans”), David Lynch (“Mulholland Drive”), Tim Burton (“Big Eyes”), Ron Howard (“Rush”), Quentin Tarantino (“The Hateful Eight”), Clint Eastwood (“American Sniper”), Roman Polanski (“What I Don’t Know About Her”), Denis Villeneuve (“Blade Runner 2049”) and others. He won awards at Gran Premio Internazionale del Doppiaggio in 2017 and 2024 for his adaptations of Stephen Frears’ “Florence” and Paul King’s “Wonka.” He also received the Anello D’Oro at the “Voci nell’Ombra” festival in Savona in 2018 and 2022 in the “Best Adaptation” category for Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.”