Vanilla Sky

One of the benefits of being an American living in Rome, is the type of people you can meet. By serendipity or some reason or other, I have been able to embed myself into the Roman music scene. I have encountered a ton of groups here because of it, met Ian MacKaye, Geoff Farina, Bane, and became friends with a guy named Vinx, who happens to now be the singer of a group called Vanilla Sky, obviously a name taken from the film featuring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz. This band is taking Italy by force right now, I don't know if you've heard of them in the States or not, but they have been on Italian MTV, TRL, played all over Europe and Asia. And they even covered a really famous American song. Check them out.