Claudio Zagarini

Claudio Zagarini (born 26 August, in Bozen, Italy) is a Italian music video director and director of photography. 
He has directed some music videos for Italian and international artists including Coolio.
In 2008 Claudio Zagarini started his career as a director of music videos. He made the official video of the artist Ginuwine, Timbaland & Missy Elliott for the song Get Involved, which became a top hit in Europe. In the video there's the international showgirl Aída Yéspica. 
Later in 2011 he directed the video of rapper Coolio with the remake of his song Gangsta Paradise together with the German DJ Rico Bernasconi. And, that year, he also made the music video "Closer" of Ekow feat. Snoop Dogg, with the Italian subrette Éva Henger. And the music video for Jay Kay feat. Flo Rida using the technique of remote streaming between the United States and Europe. It was probably the first music video to have been shot using this technique. Subsequently he made the video of the singer Rj feat. Pitbull, which achieved 2 millions of views in just a few days. And also the videos for Dwaine feat. Diddy, Keri Hilson & Trina in particular U R A Million $ Girl (co-director with Gil Green) with Éva Henger and Djibril Cissé. In 2012 one of his videos was nominated for an Eska Music Award in Poland, with pop star Aleksandra Jabłonka . During this year he also made the video This is my Love by Gold 1 feat. Bruno Mars and Jaeson Ma. In 2014 he directed his first short film Tutto in un Secondo, which got nominated for the MIFF Award 2014 at the Milan International Film Festival as best Italian short film. In 2016 he was asked to direct the video clip with his colleague Chiara Feriani entitled Blow by Jacky Greco feat. Snoop Dogg, Arlissa & JakkCity . The same year he made the video clip for the famous Italian artist Irama for Sanremo (most important Italian music show) with the song Cosa Resterà. And also made the video of Used to You for the singer Annalisa, written together with Dualipa. In 2017 Paola Turci entrusted him with the creation of the video for the song of Sanremo 2017 Fatti bella per te. In 2018 he made the video clip of Top Of The World for the German Reggae Band Shanti Powa, which was released on Rolling Stone. The following year he was nominated for many film festivals, winning various prizes in the United States for directing the video for Mouth Water Intoxicated. also in 2018, he shoots the video for Thomas, a contestant of Amici 16 (a very famous Italian talent show) In 2020 he made the video clip of the artist Rita Pavone, who returned to Sanremo with the song Niente (Resilienza 74). Between 2020 and 2021 he made the last two video clips of Ornella Vanoni: Arcobaleno, shot in Venice, and Isole Viaggianti, shot in Milan. He also made the tv commercial for the perfume Angel Nova by Mugler, starring Elisa Maino (a famous Italian Tiktoker) and videos for Ludovica Pagani (famous Italian influencer). And for many others.
===Music videos===
Title 	Year	Artist 	Notes
"Get Involved" 	2009	Ginuwine 	Timbaland and Missy Elliott
"Gansta's Paradise 2K11" 	2011	Coolio 	with Rico Bernasconi
"Closer" 	2011	Ekow Wonder 	with Snoop Dogg
"One Night in L.A." 	2011	The Glam 	with Coolio and Snoop Dogg
"U R A Milion Girl" 	2011	Dwaine 	with Diddy- Trina - Keri Hilson
"You Know ain't love" 	2012	R.J. 	with Pitbull
"Mówisz mi, że przepraszasz"	2012	Alexandra Jablonka.	
"Fatti bella per te" 	2017	Paola turci. 	Sanremo 2017
"Top of The world" 	2018	Shanti Powa. 	Rolling Stones
 
Category:1978 births
Category:Music video directors
Category:Italian people