After living and sharing his time for years between Italy and Switzerland, beginning in 2014 he has been producing two solo albums through the record labels Im Digital, Auditoria Reccords and with Me & U Records and Artists Management based in London. Alongi sings in Italian, Spanish and English and he also plays the guitar. As of September 2015 he is included in the Swiss pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. In October 2015 he participated in the Ghedi Festival for unreleased songs as the only Swiss male artist in the competition. He reached the semi-finals by beating a selection of 300 artists with the song "Come stai". The song "Come stai" written by Marco Giorgi was launched on the radio on November 30, 2015. The song reached the Italian airplay ranking in 7th place out of the 10 tracks most broad-cast by Italian radio and the 72nd place in the internationaltop 100. The song was produced by the record company Latlantide, the company with which Alongi will produce his new album. He has collaborated with Valentino Alfano, Marco Elfo Buongiovanni, Matteo Di Franco and Andrea Zuppini. Umberto Alongi was the founding member of :it:Diesel 23|Diesel 23 in Lugano in 2010 with whom he performed for five years until the bandbroke up in early 2015. With Diesel 23 he released the album "Last Chance" through the Music-Mad Records label. He was the founder in 2016 of the charity project "Contesti " in favor of OTAF Foundation with the participation of six other Swiss Italian artists. For this project he composed with Valentino Alfano a song named "Noi siamo qui". As of September 2016 he is included in the Swiss selection for the Eurovision song contest 2017 with a new song "I can just be me". This song is candidate for "Die grosse entscheidungsshow" and it's included on his new album entitled "3 minuti". A new album titled Illimitatamente was released in November 2017 in Fino Mornasco Italy, played with Massimo Scoca Stewart Copeland, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bryan Adams, John Martyn, Level 42, Bob Geldof, Tito Gomez ; Giordano Colombo ; Antonio "Aki" Chindamo ; Andrea Gentile ; The last single "Pura Follia" was launched on the radio on June 18, 2018. The song reached the Italian airplay ranking in 1st place out of the 10 tracks most broad-cast by Italian radio.
