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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Shade
Person · male · Italy · Turin · born 1987
Italian rapper and dubber
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Also known as 沙德
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1980s
Biography
English biography183 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1346025053
Biography
Vito Ventura (born 10 December 1987), known professionally as Shade (Italian: [ˈʃaːde]), is an Italian rapper and voice actor.
Life and career
In 2013, he won the second edition of the freestyle battle show MTV Spit and debuted with the studio album Mirabilansia (Warner Music Italy) in 2015.
Together with Federica Carta, he participated at the Sanremo Music Festival 2019 with the song "Senza farlo apposta".
As a voice actor, he dubbed in Italian several films, TV series and anime, most notably Sonny Wright in Inazuma Eleven: Ares, Ugly Dog (Pitbull) in UglyDolls, and L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) in the live-action film Death Note and its sequels.
Studio albums
Mirabilansia (2015)
Clownstrofobia (2016)
Truman (2018)
Singles
"Cambiare stato" (2014)
"Mai una gioia" (2015)
"Se i rapper fossero noi" feat. Fred De Palma (2015)
"Stronza bipolare" (2016)
"Odio le hit estive" (2016)
"Bene ma non benissimo" (2017)
"Irraggiungibile" feat. Federica Carta (2017)
"Amore a prima insta" (2018)
"Figurati noi" feat. Emma Muscat (2018)
"Senza farlo apposta" with Federica Carta (2019)
"La hit dell'estate" (2019)
"Allora ciao" (2020)
"Autostop" (2020)
"In'un ora" (2021)
"Tori seduti" with J-Ax (2022)
"Pendolari" (2023)
"Lunatica" (2023)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Shade head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shade_in_concerto.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217990seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_%28rapper%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_%28rapper%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Chriturba · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q18217990 · MusicBrainz: 310ae8a3-1fa6-4b0e-92fa-45c583073343
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