DON MIMMO IERVOLINO

Father Domenico Iervolino was born in S. Gennarello di Ottaviano (NA) on December 23, 1964. He had begun to songs since he was at the age of eighteen. He won the "First festival of youth" as performer and author, with the song "Brividi di agosto". With the same song he participate to the "Talent-scout" by Gianni Ravera for Sanremo. When he was 20, he decided to enter into the seminary and for a certain period of time he abandoned all his musical rims, thinking that the vocation to priesthood should be incompatible with the light and rock music.

At the end of his studies in the seminary he recovered the love for music enreaching first source with inspiration the cristian one. The result were music tests of great human inspiration, but the ardent of spiritual depth accorsing to spontaneous expression of later his friends, induced him to record some of his songs for the occasion of his priestly ordination. So, in 1994, he published his first record called "Innamorami di Te". In 1996 he published "Fatti per essere". His composition "Uno per essere Chiesa" was chosen by Chiara Lubich, founder of the "Movimento dei Focolari", as the hymn of the international congress of the movement "Parrocchie nuove", a ramification of the movement of the hearths. In the same record you can find the song "Maria poesia" with which he won the festival of songs dedicated to Virgin Mary, organized by Giuseppe Cionfoli. With other songs he is present in many records: "Magnificat 95" (Rugginenti ed.), "Aprite a Gesù Cristo" (Monfortane ed.), "Maria la via a Cristo 2000" (Boom ed.).

On december 1997 he took part in the second edition of the "Ankon festival" in Ancona, avertised by "Arancia Network" and radio "Latte e miele" and organized by E. Fratini. He won the festival and received the prize for the better text, also from a jury formed by Mogol, Migliacci, M. Pecora, and a other different producers of big italian artists.

For the last record ", "BUONENUOVE", he placed his trust in the artistic direction of Tony Bungaro e C. Passavanti; they just came through the success of Sanremo 1998 with the song "Senza confini", that had received the prize of the critics.

This summer, together with a band fabulous and explosive, he gave way to a series of concerts alive with great success. The comment, that often father Mimmo picked up among people, were of this kind: "I didn't expect when read the manifest, I though at once to the sermon that a priest could do, instead just from the first song I've realized he has grim, voice, ability, communicative... congratulations and we hope to see him to Sanremo".