GINA SCIPIONE Bio

EMOTIONS COLLIDE AND DREAMS AWAKEN
AS GINA SCIPIONE SEIZES HER 'DESTINY' WITH DEBUT CD
Singer-songwriter-pianist celebrates
release of 'Destino'

PHILADELPHIA -- When GINA SCIPIONE (skip-ee-YONE) sits down at her piano to
write a song, she's as likely to be influenced by Kate Bush and Billie
Holiday as she is by emotional collisions and waking dreams. Gina feels
destined to share her personal yet universal experiences through song and
performance, hence the title of her debut CD, DESTINO, the Italian word for
'destiny.'

From the very stage from which she first debuted her original material, GINA
SCIPIONE celebrated the release of DESTINO -- an album which brilliantly and
succinctly crystallizes the life experiences she chronicles from one track
to the next -- Thursday, July 25, 2002 at the nationally acclaimed Grape
Street Pub in Manayunk, PA.

GINA SCIPIONE continues to establish a reputation for gracefully
intertwining the instruments of piano and voice to create a unique mixture
of introspective emotion and message. In concert, the Philadelphia area
singer-songwriter travels through her set list into another dimension,
unleashing the feelings of a woman alive. Her songs range in mood, key,
tempo and topic -- from breaking barriers of ignorance and fear to family
relations and love. Yet no matter how complex the topic, it's consistently
translated through Gina's vast compositional skills into a well-crafted
listening experience.

'Each song on the CD represents some of my life experiences,' says the Bucks
County, PA native, now in nearby Southern New Jersey. 'When I write, I
usually have an issue that needs attention, and the creative process tends
to help me gain resolution.'

'Independence Day' -- easily Gina's most-requested song in concert -- tells
the story of taking back one's powers and ending a relationship with someone
who was never really willing to give in the first place. Those unanswered
offerings are further explored in 'My Request,' about a woman's wants and
needs in a relationship (prompting men who've heard it to often call it 'The
Commitment Song').
'Winter' deals with separation from a lover, while 'A Moment of Truth' tells
of misunderstanding another's intentions and 'Silence' probes family
dysfunction. DESTINO closes with 'Take Me to Freedom,' a song of love
without attachment intended to leave the listener reexamining unconditional
love.

Though she is just now releasing her first CD, Gina has already played at
all of Philadelphia's top acoustic rooms -- including The Tin Angel, The
Point and The Fire -- and has performed at venues as varied as The Arts
House in Delaware and the Sun Music Company in New York City. She also
hosted and performed at the First Annual Bryn Mawr Music Festival at The
Point (2002). Other festivals where Gina has showcased and performed include
the Philadelphia Music Conference (2000 and 2001), the Newton Colony/WXPN
Arts and Music Festival (2001), the Haddon Heights (NJ) Fall Festival
(2000), and the Pumpkin Festival in Core Creek Park, PA (2001).

Since the fall of 2000, she has produced and hosted a monthly songwriters'
showcase at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, where she has
performed with different songwriters each month at the Philadelphia
Cathedral. Since 2001, Gina has served double duty for the Philadelphia AIDS
WALK as a performer and key entertainment coordinator, overseeing some two
dozen acts each year. She also has played numerous benefits to support other
charitable organizations such as The Make A Wish Foundation, Dreamcatchers,
The American Red Cross, Skyhelp (supporting workers of the September 11
terrorist attacks), the Marine Stewardship Council of the World Wildlife
Fund and a disabled musicians fund.

On Philadelphia radio, Gina has appeared on the renowned 'Folk Show' on
WXPN/Philadelphia with Gene Shay in two different guises -- as an interview
subject for her and a backup singer.

Gina began taking piano lessons in second grade and continued throughout her
youth. Having sought out and studied with various piano and voice teachers
from Settlement Music School, Temple and Juilliard since her teens, she is
forever pushing herself as an artist. During her Master's studies in
Education at Penn, Gina could often be found unofficially auditing Music
classes in the School of Music. She spent a memorable and particularly
influential semester studying music and arts in Salzburg, Austria, through
the American Institute for Foreign Studies and the University of Salzburg.
While studying overseas, Gina sang lead and backup vocals with an original
Austrian band called Cash and Powder. And upon her return, she landed a
vocalist gig with the legendary Vegas swing combo the Playboys, led by
Juilliard faculty member Kenny Iatarola Gordon.

Moving from a swing band to a chant choir, it was soon evident that GINA
SCIPIONE needed to channel all she had learned from her vast and varied
experiences and launch the solo career she realized she was always
'destined' to pursue. DESTINO is not only the culmination of all Gina has
experienced, but the first major foray from a woman with so much more to
give.

'Releasing DESTINO is like a birth for me,' says Gina. 'I feel like I've
been pregnant for a long time with these songs, and finally the babies are
being born. It's time to let them go and have their own lives, wherever they
may lead.'

DESTINO is available at www.cdbaby.com

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