As a regular frequenter of the Pistoia Blues Festival, he joined Giancarlo Crea's Model T. Boogie band in 1986, selected for the 1987 Chicago Blues Festival, which allowed him to go on stage together with artists such as Albert King, Johnny Copeland or Phil Guy.
In 1990, after the experience with Model T. Boogie with whom he released two albums, he leaves Italy to move to Chicago where he plays with local blues artists such as Son Seals, Melvin Taylor, Sugar Blue. He returned to Italy in 1993 where he joined Mimmo Mollica's Blues Harbor. He then plays on Ollie Nightingale's album Live at Campanile. In 1994 he founded his own group: Nick Becattini & Serious Fun with whom he first released a studio album of the same name in 1995, nominated by Musica Jazz as the best group of the year and then a live album, Funky People - Live! in 1997.
He then collaborates with Peaches Staten with whom he releases two albums (Nick & Peaches Live at Blue Sun and Time Will Tell), and during his travels to Chicago, together with his wife Renita Cameron, with Carl Weatherby and Pinetop Perkins. In 1998 he released his second studio album Unleaded for Club de Musique, and two years later with Caterina Vichi with whom he recorded Uffizi blues.
In 2003 he released his third solo studio album Pistoia Blues on Bluesin Records. In 2009 Nick Becattini & the Nickettes returns with a new group and a new album.
In 2013 the collaboration with the singer Ty Le Blanc begins, with which two works are released: Leblanc of 2013 produced by Gianluca Di Maggio by Trasimeno Blues, with Pippo Guarnera and Vince Vallicelli, and a live of 2014 Blues Shadows.
During this period he intensified his collaboration with Bluesin 'both as a teacher and as a participant in the festival.
In 2020 he released a new album Lifetime Blues (Saifam) reviewed best Italian blues album of the year.
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Tracklist:
01. Pistoia Blues 05:13
02. Don't Jump 03:53
03. In the morning 04:14
04. Fortunate 05:56
05. That's Love 05:09
06. Ghetto Woman 03:39
07. Voodoo Daddy 03:05
08. Oslo Slow 07:00
09. Serious Boogie 05:41
10. New Day 02:57
11. Betty Boopa 04:11
12. Blooded Game 05:32
13. Warm Feeling 03:49
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