Ruggero Pasquarelli

Since 2014 Pasquarelli is romantically associated with Argentine actress, singer, and TV hostess Candelaria Molfese, his co-star from ‘Violetta’. The two have created a YouTube channel ‘Ruggelaria’ on August 6, 2015. The channel has already thrived in amassing over 1.68 million subscribers and a whooping count of over 142 million views. It has also fetched the two a Viral Moment award at the 2016 Kids' Choice Awards Argentina.

Apart from Italian, Pasquarelli can speak fluently in Spanish language and is taking lessons in English.

In February 2015, he came up with his book ‘Mi Piace!’ (I like it!) in Italy. It was later released as ‘Me Gusta!’ in November that year in Argentina and Uruguay.

He was born on September 10, 1993, in the town and comune of Città Sant'Angelo in the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy to Bruno and Antonella Pasquarelli. His family originally hails from Naples in southern Italy. He has a brother called Leonardo.

He started singing and dancing as a six years old kid. He took guitar lessons and enrolled in an acting school in 2004. He began attending singing classes in 2008 and started learning the piano in 2009.

He did his studies at the pedagogical liceo in high school and specialized in Arts and Entertainment. As a high school student, Pasquarelli got involved with the local rock band called ‘65013’ as a singer.

While in his last year of high school, in 2010, Pasquarelli gave audition for the fourth series of the Italian singing competition ‘X Factor’, an Italian version of Britain's ‘The X Factor’.

He was selected as a member of the "Boys" category of ‘X Factor’ by Italian record producer and TV personality Mara Maionchi who remained one of the judges of the talent show during its fourth series. Other judges of the fourth series were Enrico Ruggeri, Anna Tatangelo and Elio while it was hosted by Italian DJ, singer, producer, musician and TV presenter Francesco Facchinetti.

In the competition, he sang songs like ‘You're the First, The Last, My Everything’ by Barry White and ‘Tu vuo' fa' l'americano’ by Renato Carosone. He also sang songs of artists such as Elton John and Alex Britti among others.

Pasquarelli remained safe in the competition for the first six weeks and came to the bottom two for the first time in the seventh week along with Cassandra Raffaele. Pasquarelli evaded elimination that week as only Elio, Raffaele's judge, voted for his elimination thus resulting in Raffaele's elimination that week.

Pasquarelli then remained safe for the next couple of weeks and again landed up at the bottom two, this time along with Nevruz Joku in the tenth week. As he was only 17 years of age and Italian laws don't permit people under the age of majority to perform after midnight, Pasquarelli was barred from performing at the final showdown. Thus a pre-recorded performance of the young talent was aired. Finally Pasquarelli got eliminated from the competition that week as the judges’ vote tied while Nevruz became safe through public voting.