Playing in different bands since he was 15, he started doing by his own, with the single “When sailors are in town” in 1991. A slow acoustic bottleneck guitarsong.

In the same year he also recorded, supported by musicians from Berlin, his first real album “Dead Horse”. A kind of destructive psychedelic rock album. Released by the german hardcore label 42 Records from Stuttgart and distributed by X-Mist.
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  But unlucky with this band he began touring solo through Europe and a 6 track 7” came out in 1992 with only acoustic stuff, called “Back on the way”.
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   Then in summer 1993 he started again working with a band, this time supported by Tico Zamora on bass who had played with H.R. and Mo Tucker and on drums Steve Hahn from the German heavy band Jingo de Lunch.
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   En pocos días grabaron el desgarrador "…and here comes Centurio", editado en 1994 y distribuido por Semaphore.
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In a few days they recorded a bareboned rock’n’roll album called “…and here comes Centurio”, which was released in 1994, distributed by Semaphore.
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   After giving nearly a hundred solo concerts in 1995 he put together another CD “live and alone”: recorded at different places with different technics. Acoustic- and also electric guitar was used, mostly in a slanting singer/songwriter style.
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  The Berlin city magazine TIP wrote: “very lovely protest songs with cultcharachter and no compromise”.
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   Now new album “Low Rally” is out. Only the sound of an old semi-acoustic rock’n’roll guitar and a little bit of singing.
First presented live in London and in Reading at a singer/songwriter bonanza february 1998.
 
The reading newspaper titled: “EURO TRASH. The evening featured music from some of the best acoustic singer songwriters around. First up from Germany is Harry Coltello”. And London city magazine Time Out wrote: “GREAT BERLIN GUITAR – GUITAR STRIKES BACK!”.

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Promotional press note:

Following various record releases and tours with his band, Harry Coltello went solo in 1995. Born in Germany and based in Berlin, Coltello regularly tours Europe, playing his own distinctive brand of low-fi trash rock’n’roll to devoted fans from Oslo to Lyon, from Antwerp to Budapest.

Coltello plays a Gretsch Rally guitar – the inspiration behind the title of his latest album, “Low Rally”.
The new songs come from the road. Lonely tales from lonely motels. It’s an intimate collection of tunes, both introspective and inspirational, and tattoed with a genuine love of rock’n’roll.
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