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How I became a musician

I was born in the industrialized Northern Italy of the 70s, to a Lombard mother and a Sicilian father. In my lonely childhood I had among my most faithful friends a record by Louis Armstrong, one by the Beatles and one by Béla Bartók, which were constantly playing. The upright piano, on which I spent hours studying, didn't give me the emotion of listening like those records could.
As a teenager I discovered heavy rock and started playing the electric bass, letting myself be carried away by the opportunity to meet the musicians of my city. In the kaleidoscope of genres that I have frequented, the blues brought me closer to the folkloric radicality of musical expression, which I have never stopped searching for.
Jazz allowed me to combine the theater of the blues story with the complexity of the classical, satisfying my passion for harmonic articulation and constituting the main surrounding of my compositional activity.
  In 2014 I moved to Berlin, seduced by the diversity of horizons that the city offers, attracted by the opportunity to get to know a touch of Eastern Europe and Middle Eastern influences that bring me closer to my southern roots. Far from my hometown, I find in Berlin a knot of roots among which there are also
mine. I don't intend to untie that knot, but rather observe its continuous intertwining.



How I became an actor

In 1994 I moved to Bologna to study engineering. After two years of fruitful study, I still couldn't get closer to the productive world of telecommunications, which I was destined for. I then enrolled in a professional school for prose actors, then financed by the EEC, where I graduated in 1998. We acted for the Arena del Sole, in Bologna, for the Teatro Due, in Parma. I then became part of a commedia dell'arte company, with which we toured Northern Italy, performing public readings. After reading fairy tales to my daughters in the evening for a few years, I proposed myself to the Italian Union of the Blind as an audiobook reader and I worked there until 2014 when I moved to Berlin. Here I worked on several productions as an actor and musician and in 2023 I performed in Brescia a theater piece that I wrote to commemorate the massacre of Piazza della Loggia in 1974.

 

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