I was born and raised up in Southern Italy and exactly in a town called Laterza located in the region of Apulia. I began my musical studies when I was 12 and since then I have never stopped to play music. The reasons why I got so close to music are various, such as passion and curiosity. Immerging myself completely into music and discovering this magic world as an esecutor and not only as a simple listener were the spark that gave light and enlightened the way of my path.

I was born and raised up in Southern Italy and exactly in a town called Laterza located in the region of Apulia. I began my musical studies when I was 12 and since then I have never stopped to play music. The reasons why I got so close to music are various, such as passion and curiosity. Immerging myself completely into music and discovering this magic world as an esecutor and not only as a simple listener were the spark that gave light and enlightened the way of my path.

I began my academic studies as a classical guitarist. My curiosity in music has brought me from the beginning to also know other musical genres as funk, jazz and flamenco until to gypsy jazz. My music and my sound are the synthesis of all those paths. The musical instrument is important to give birth to my sound, my guitar was built by the Italian luthier Marco La Manna, from Cremona, behind my personal instructions to best express my musical concepts.

My instrument is always handy. Luckily I am a teacher of classical guitar at public schools and my working and artistic day is constantly surrounded by musicians and music. Technique plays an important role for every musician and you should give it enough space. My life as a musician has always been full of challenges. The guitar, not a simple instrument, has the characteristic of having evolved extraordinarily over the centuries. A classical guitarist will hardly be able to fully exploit his/her studies to play electric guitars, flamenco or other genres that use techniques that are so far from those learned during his/her academic studies. My approach to manouche music is almost entirely random and is the result of my constant curiosity and desire to discover the new. The technique, the instruments used in the gypsy music have nothing to do with the path that I had faced before. I have learned so much from this new adventure: the use of the plectrum, of the specifical techniques of this genre, of the harmonies and especially of rhythm. As you can see when listening to the cd, there isn’t any percussion instrument and their role is entirely carried out by the rhythmical guitar and by the specific use of its techniques (La pompe).