Through our music, we want people to know our artistic side, but also our personality, since the latter is the real ingredient of our production along with emotions, happiness, tragedies of our lives, fears, rage, and all those others that influence us in everyday life. Besides, through our music, we want to give a little contribution to help the poorest children of the world, and we want to take our part into the fight against this political and economical system, which is leading more and more to the total exploitation of resources, reducing many innocent people to starvation.

The Joe Black Group was born in May 2005, based on an idea of its songwriter and keyboard player Giovanni Orlando, aka “Joe”, who, together with the eclectic Andrea Gemmato (“Ritratto di un mattino gruppo rock progressive”, that is to say: “Portrait of a morning - progressive rock group”), begins to develop ‘60s- and ‘70s-like sounds.
Two months later Claudio Merico, violinist and founder of the “Anonima Folk” folk rock group, collaborates to enrich these new sounds. With these elements, they give birth to the first Joe Black Group’s cd, focused on the search for a kind of sound coming from three different musical periods: the ‘70s, the ‘80s and the ‘90s. The title of this first work is “Artic Mind”, but it isn’t distributed because of founds shortage at that time. “Artic Mind” has three important collaborations in it: the one of Simone Costantino, who contributed positively with his voice and his rap style; the one of Flavia Falanga, aka "Meei" (voice in "Time has come"); and the one of Alessandra Fineo (voice in "Rain").
At the end of the summer of 2006, the group finds, within a few weeks, the three missing components, namely: Stefano Spataro (founder of “Ritratto di un mattino”) and his electric bass, Marcello De Felice (drummer of “Anonima Folk”) and that astonishing soul voice of Ilaria Fuggetti’s, who will soon become one of the columns and fundamental members of the group.
From the October of 2006 and up to the July of 2007, the Joe Black Group consolidate its position with the three principal members (Giovanni Orlando, Ilaria Fuggetti and Andrea Gemmato) and with important collaborations, first of which is the one with Claudio Merico (violin), then with Stefano Spataro and Marcello De Felice.
This is the starting line of the new cd. In July 2007, Andrea Gemmato (electric guitar) leaves the band, but this is no earthquake: on the other hand, the band (Ilaria, Joe and Stefano with the unique collaboration of Claudio Merico) can continue to carry on the hard work for the second cd. December 2007 witnesses an important change: Stefano (bass) leaves the band, in accord with the rest of the members, to follow his personal project (Ada Nuky) and his place is taken by an extraordinary and bright bass player: Anna Annicchiarico, aka “Nina, the sweet iron bass”, who starts immediately to mark her personal style, both musically and personally, in four songs: “Deep inside” and “The beginning”, in both of which she also helps in writing the lyrics. Besides, she writes the lyrics for the beautiful “My little soldier”.
In January 2008, the Joe Black Group receives a phone call from an important international company for discography distribution and marketing, the Pirames International in the person of Federico Montesanto, with the result that they actually obtain a contract for the digital distribution of their first cd: “Faith”.
Other projects, still in an early stage, are the opening of a Recording Studio, of a Proof Studio and an audio/video production society, to give the possibility to other local groups to play with high level instrumentation. The idea is to give to the Studio a typical American sound, as the most important characteristic.
It is not easy to label the Joe Black Group under a determined musical genre, since its members are from very different musical backgrounds: because of this, the group pass from Fusion to Funky Jazz, through Soul, some ‘70s rock nuance and New Age.