I was born in Bologna in 1971 and, during the youth, my life flowed smoothly among school, sport (I was a promising tennis player but without success) and basket games at Lunetta Gamberini. I took interest in music only around twenty when I formed a demential rock group with some friends: "Il rivestimento pi" and started as vocalist. As of today, I’m still playing in this group. Very soon I will be attracted by guitar: at the beginning I played it as autodidact (by reading the manuals of "how to become a guitarist in 24 hours") and later, I took private lessons. In that period my love for music grows and ranges from rock to jazz and progressive music. While I was taking guitar lessons, I also started studying flute and sax. I happened to play also balcanic music, it was in 1996 during a summer camp with the International Civil Service in Maribor (Slovenia). The outcome has been a CD containing folk music of several countries with original arrangements. Then I decided to acquire more knowledge, therefore, in summer 2000 I attended the seminars of Veneto Jazz where I studied guitar with Vic Juris conducting. In that occasion, I was lucky enough to perform flute in public together with the bass player Harvie Swarz.  Moreover, the same year, I followed a specialization course for guitarists held by Tomaso Lama. As far as musical tastes are concerned, I am quite "omnivorous": all that can fit between Coltrane and Blackmore, passing through James Brown and PFM (with Pagani at the flute). The meeting with Tenmidnight happened by chance: it was in 2004 at the mythical  Music Box in Casalecchio di Reno when I was talking with Robby about music in odd times... You can listen our CD to know all what happens inside that place, from ten to midnight....

The music that will never get me tired:

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John Coltrane

R. Blackmore

James Brown

P.F.M.

TenMidnight...