Who is Willie Peyote: Biography, Age, Career, La Locura and Instagram

Posted on March 7, 2021

Willie Peyote, to the registry office William Bruno and is a 35-year-old Italian rapper and songwriter born in Turin. After the growing success of the last few years e the definitive launch with the album Savoy education, participated in Sanremo 2021 with the song Never say never (La locura), that yes sixth ranking and wins the Critics Award Mia Martini, attributed by the Press Room on the Roof of the Ariston.

Who is Willie Peyote?

• Stage name: Willie Peyote
• First name: Guglielmo Bruno
• Age: 35 years
• Date of birth: August 28, 1985
• Birth place: Turin
• Profession: Rapper and songwriter
• Height: 190 cm
• Weight: 82 kg (approx.)
• Tattoos: no visible tattoos
• Official Instagram profile: @williepeyote
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Biography

William Bruno, in art Willie Peyote, was born in Turin in 1985. His father is Turin and his mother is from Biella, and Guglielmo grows up in a town in the Turin belt, Leinì, but lives the city thanks to his grandparents who live in one of the suburbs, Barriera di Milano. Since he was a child he grows up with music because his father he was a musician and Willie often followed him on tour. We also know that part of his family is a follower of Jehovah’s Witnesses, while he has decided not to be baptized and is an atheist. We know little about his childhood: he lived for a period a Paris at the age of 16 but his upbringing is “Savoyard” as he himself says. Willie Peyote is graduated in Political Science with a thesis on the 1992 Los Angeles riot as a consequence of the police beating of Rodney King, and in his songs we find much of this culture from social commitment to civil rights and religion. Her life changed forever in November 2014, when after entering and winning a songwriter contest, Genoa x You. Back in Turin mid-month he resigned from call center where he worked. Willie Peyote feels a rapper even if it does not have the classic style of the rap genre: “I am a little offended when they tell me that I am not: I take great care of the technique, the originality, the flow, and my rapper colleagues know perfectly well that I am one of them”.

What Does Willie Peyote Mean?

The question they ask most often a Willie Peyote in interviews he is about the meaning of his stage name. Willie is the diminutive of William, the English translation of his name William, hence the first Willie that came to his mind was the Looney Tunes character Willie Coyote. But why change it to Peyote? As Willie himself says, “I just added drugs to it”. In fact, peyote is a plant with hallucinogenic effects very well known in Latin America.

Instagram

Willie Peyote he is very active on social media and his Instagram page has more than 158 thousand followers. Among the shots we also find many artists with whom he collaborated such as Jovanotti, Morgan, Lodo Guenzi and Subsonica. It is defined: nihilist, Turin and unemployed because saying rapper immediately makes bimbominkia and saying singer-songwriter immediately celebrates unity.

Career

Willie Peyote began his career as a musician as a punk bassist and slowly became passionate about rap. Willie is the voice of the group Funk Shui Project, a collective of Turin artists that collaborates with several other artists such as Davide Shorty, also a competitor in Sanremo 2021. His first album solo is from 2011, The manual of the young nihilist, and in no time the streaming boom made Spotify. His songs are often praised by critics and his audience has grown over time reaching the sold out at Alcatraz in Milan and in the stages of his tour before the forced stop due to Covid. Willie Peyote participated in the Tenco Award and sang a song in the celebratory anthology of Fabrizio De André.

It imposes itself on Italian music scene thanks to the language of his lyrics (cynical, polemical And hardcore), and above all thanks to the release in 2015 of the album that confirms and increases its notoriety: Savoy education. The album is a real mix of genres, but the one that dominates is definitely the jazz, present in pieces such as I am not a racist but …, The right outfit And There was a vodka. The lyrics are more ironic and satirical and sprinkled with musical and cinematic quotes.

The media success brought him as a guest of Fabio Fazio a What’s the weather like. After some collaborations also with Subsonica, Willie Peyote releases the fifth album Iodegradable in 2019. Famous piece of his latest work is Mango, dedicated to the homonymous artist who died in 2014.

The single comes out in November 2020 Depression is a time of year which bitterly recounts the period of difficulty due to COVID-19.

Sanremo 2021

In the final of AmaSanremo, the launch program of Sanremo Giovani, Amadeus confirmed the participation of Willie Peyote to Sanremo 2021, aired from 2 to 6 March at the Ariston Theater. Willie sang the song Never say never (La locura). In the evening dedicated to duets and covers of Sanremo 2021, Willie Peyote duets with Samuel Bersani interpreting “Universal Judgments” by Bersani himself.

Willie Peyote yes sixth ranking and wins the Critics Award Mia Martini, attributed by the Press Room on the Roof of the Ariston.

Text Never Say Never La Locura Willie Peyote

This is the Italy of the future, a country of music while there is death outside
Now that they know this is the trend, all these rappers have a band
Even when they talk about autotune, all in costume like the X-men
Shouting scandal, they sound like Marilyn Manson in 2020
New punk old teens, I dye my hair and keep up with the times
There is the convict who speaks to the belly but the intellectual is more snobbish
Based on your audience, choose a nice character, Italy is a great sitcom
This stuff that was old five years ago now looks avant-garde and they call it It-pop
The majors get you a deal if you hit the ballet and boom on Tik-tok
We are hungry young people, we are slaves to the hype
Records are no longer sold as there is Spotify
We reopen the stadiums but neither theaters nor live shows
Maybe I do two dribbles, never say never
We are successful young people, we are slaves to the hype
You don’t need the programs if you have consent
We reopen the stadiums but neither theaters nor live shows

Maybe I do two dribbles, never say never
Never say never, never say never
Never say never say never say never say never

Now that they know that this is the trend everyone is selling their ass to a brand
All these bomber do not score but now it counts if they make the cash
Do they pump trash in the name of LOL and then get surprised by the Exit polls?
Shit wins if by dint of laughter he manages to seem credible
What does it take to decide “all this stuff broke my ass?”
These touts, impostors and scoundrels make me sick ‘these dicks the millions
“Bad intentions …” what happens? I was wrong
I didn’t understand how twerking means fighting patriarchy
We are hungry young people, we are slaves to the hype
Records are no longer sold as there is Spotify
We reopen the stadiums but neither theaters nor live shows
Maybe I do two dribbles, never say never
We are successful young people, we are slaves to the hype
You don’t need the programs if you have consent
We reopen the stadiums but neither theaters nor live shows

Maybe I do two dribbles, never say never
(Never say never) I don’t know if I bend I don’t know if I break
(Never say never) I don’t know if I mean it, it depends on the price
(Never say never) you call it future but it’s just progress
(Never say never) it seems the smartest and most fashionable Middle Ages
(Never say never) if it is true that the end justifies the means
(Never say never) I don’t say good taste but at least common sense
(Never say never) I’ve seen better, I’ve done worse
(Never say never) here, you say another ball if I can dribble

We are hungry young people, we are slaves to the hype
Records are no longer sold as there is Spotify
We reopen the stadiums but neither theaters nor live shows
Maybe I do two dribbles, never say never
We are successful young people, we are slaves to the hype
You don’t need the programs if you have consent
We reopen the stadiums but neither theaters nor live shows
Maybe I do two dribbles, never say never

Sanremo 2021 singers

Private life

Not much is known about Willie Peyote’s private life, because he is very private. We don’t know if it is fiance or not and he himself declared that “on the sentimental level, as on that of singing, I have the problem of having very high demands on myself. And these I reflect on the others obviously. ”

Curiosity

• Willie Peyote is a big fan of the Turin and in his songs there are many references to football
• His favorite quote is from Umberto Eco: “Without Italy, Turin would be more or less the same. But without Turin, Italy would be very different “.
• In songs and interviews he often criticized certain politics, such as Matteo Salvini, but also footballers and famous people like Gianluigi Buffon when he seemed to want to get into politics;
• one of the most famous songs of the Turin singer-songwriter is Dogs, centered on a theme dear to the author, namely the religion;
• the video of the single Your future ex-wife, which is perhaps the songwriter’s only love song, was shot by the Neapolitan actor and director Libero De Rienzo.

Willie Peyote video