I
was born on April 15, 1978 in Rome and I started to play electric
guitar at the beginning of 1995. I took guitar lessons for 6 months
from a friend and then I continued by myself with methods and
instructional videos. My early influences included Steve Vai and
Joe Satriani, but a few months later I discovered the neo-classical
era with Yngwie Malmsteen, Joey Tafolla, Vinnie Moore, Patrick
Rondat and many more. Then, for the first time I heard Jason Becker,
the one that most influenced my playing and my style. In that
period, around 1997/1998 I started to record my first demos on
audio cassettes and I started to play some concerts in my city.
In the middle of 1999 I understood that my way of playing had
changed, that it had matured through those years thanks to these
musicians: George Bellas, Shawn Lane and Greg Howe but most of
all thanks to Vitalij Kuprij. Under the new influences I recorded
new music and in 1999 I started also to send my last record to
web-magazines, where I was once reviewed as undiscovered artist
for December 1999 and January 2000.
Meanwhile,
my musical ideas had changed, so I started to write and play music
in a different way searching for my style and my own playing.
In late 2000 I started to record my first real solo album "Suspension"
that I released by self in summer 2001. I had a lot of world distributors,
including also M.A.C.E. music the personal label of guitarist
Michael Angelo Batio. Suspension helped me to be less unknown
between the instrumental shred/prog guitarists, infact I had a
lot of reviews and interviews and I started to write guitar lessons
for a lot of web-magazines. On May 2002 I released my first instructional
CD-Rom based on Arpeggios, on January 2003 the second one called
'High Shred Techs' and on March 2004 the third one called 'Intese
Guitar Playing'.
At
the beginning of 2005 I finished to record and produce my second
solo album called "Forbidden Dimension". It includes
great players as Kyle Honea on bass, Jon Doman on drums (tracked
and engineered by Greg Howe at his personal studio), Vitalij Kuprij
all piano and keyboards on one song and Bob Katsionis keyboards
solos on 5 songs. The album is a shred/progessive influenced music
and it was released by Lion Music on July 2005.
In
the same time I recorded also some guest solos for other artists’
albums released by various labels as Brennus Records, Lion Music,
Yamaha Music and Shrapnel Records.
I
love my music and my way of playing, I think to be honest with
my self playing what I like more and not playing other things
to make money; music is my life but not my job, to have money
I have a normal job in an office, so my music is EXACTLY the mirror
of myself.
