Nico Duportal is a Rock’n’Roll and Blues singer-songwriter and guitar player.
Drawing his inspiration from the source of American popular music, he has become an emblematic figure of this European scene in a few years.
With his band, Nico Duportal & His Rhythm Dudes, he travelled the roads, roaming festivals and clubs in Europe and in the United States ; the band’s incendiary performances galvanizing listeners and dancers alike.
Nico Duportal also performed alongside many international Rock’n’Roll and Blues legends such as Big Jay McNeely, Lynwood Slim, Mitch Woods, Wanda Jackson, R. J Mischo, Lloyd Price, Roddy Jackson, Gizzelle, Ruby Ann among many others.
It’s in 2009 that he decided to go in studio and surrounded himself with legendary players to record his first album, “Meet Me in the Basement”. Three other records will follow of which the latest, ”Dealing With My Blues”, turns out to be an undeniable evolution in the artist’s style. Intertwined with Blues, Calypso, Soul, Mambo, Gospel and Rock’n’Roll with a definitely modern touch, Nico Duportal, however, doesn’t lose his early roots that made his identity.