Davide Shorty is an Italian singer and songwriter born in 1989 in Palermo. Born Davide Sciortino, he began his musical career as a frontman for the group Combomastas’ between 2007 and 2010, issuing the studio albums Piccolo (2007) and Shorty VS The Supa Produsa (2010). After settling in London, he founded the band Retrospective for Love in 2012, which released the recording Retrospective for Love EP in 2014 and the studio album Random Activities of a Heart in 2017. In 2015, Shorty participated in the ninth series of the television program X Factor, where he finished in third place and issued the EP Davide Shorty through the label Sony Music. His debut solo studio album, Straniero, appeared in 2017. He subsequently collaborated with the Funk Shui Project on the studio recordings Terapia di gruppo (2018) and La soluzione (2019). In 2021, Shorty competed in the New Proposals section of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Regina”, where he finished in number 2. For the track, he received the Lucio Dalla Press Room Award, the Lunezia Award and the Enzo Jannacci Award. His later recording history included the solo studio albums Fusion. (2021) and Nuova forma (2025). In 2026, he performed at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Verona.
