Blanco

Blanco Biography

Blanco is the name of more than one artist: 1) UK rapper Joshua Eduardo 2) Italian rapper Riccardo Fabbriconi 3) US Bay area MC/rapper 4) Aleksander Vinter aka Savant 5) Spanish hip hop 6) Brazilian artist 7) German hip-hop 8) Galician folk artist 9) Swedish trance producer Raul Blanco 10) Belgian 11) Romanian hip‐hop 1) Joshua Eduardo (b. 8 March 1999), professionally known as Blanco, is a British rapper hailing from Kennington, South London. He is widely known as a member of the iconic UK Drill collective Harlem Spartans. He would start to gain notoriety alongside the group in 2016 through singles such as “Call Me A Spartan”, “Kennington Where It Started” and “Kent Nizzy” – tracks in which actively cemented the group as one of the most influential UK Drill collectives in the country. Blanco was arrested alongside fellow Harlem Spartans member MizOrMac in February 2017 when their vehicle was intercepted by police and searches found a loaded gun on MizOrMac and a samurai sword on Blanco. They were jailed in 2018 with Blanco receiving 3-years. After a steady growing solo-career following Harlem Spartan parting ways as a group, Blanco refined his rapping skills showcasing he can do more than just UK Drill as he also swerved in and out of Trap and Afroswing genre’s – perfecting his slow-set cadence and Anime wordplay, the latter in which inspired his debut EP English Dubbed, which was released in November 2019. Blanco released his full-length debut mixtape to be released in August 2021 titled City of God to critical acclaim. 2) Riccardo Fabbriconi (born 10 February 2003), known professionally as Blanco, is an Italian singer, rapper and songwriter. He rose to prominence in 2021 with the hits "La canzone nostra" and "Mi fai impazzire", which topped the Italian Singles Chart. He later released his debut album Blu celeste, driven by the singles "Notti in bianco", "Paraocchi" and the title track. In 2022, he won the 72nd Sanremo Music Festival alongside Mahmood with the song "Brividi", with which the duo represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, finishing in sixth place.