Born and grown up in Massafra (TA) - Italy, he moved to Bologna where he studied music in the POPULAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC IVAN ILLICH, attending courses about drumset, traditional italian frame drums, caribbean percussions. He took part also to many workshops, deepening the techniques of improvisation with Fabrizio Puglisi, Tristan Honsinger, Bob Moses, Misha Mengelberg, Michael Riessler, Phil Minton, John Tilbury, Pierre Favre. He followed also workshops about brasilian music with Airto Moreira; about serbian traditional music with Dragan Nikolic; about iranian percussions with D.Chemirani; about gnawa ritual music with Omar Hayat and Essaouira's musicians, about arabian-andalusian percussions with Mohamed Acdur from the National Orchestra of Tangeri; about darbuka from Maghreb with Marzouk Mejri and many others about traditional music from South Italy. He has played as drummer or percussionist in many bands, among which: Grupo Cienfuegos from Milano, recording with them the CD Bacatà (Godagoda Records) in 2003; Bologna Klezmer Kapelye, recording with them the homonym CD in 2003. He has collaborated with many acting companies and writers and he appears in some movies. In the present time he plays with GRATTULA BEDDATTULA; with UCCELLACCI, (he published with them the homonym CD in 2004 for the label Etnagigante). He has collaborations with the bands Trimuzike from Milano and AbRe from Belgrade (Serbia) and with the singer Vincenzo Scruci. From 2005 he plays drumset in the variety show for teather THE NUZZO DI BIASE LIVE SHOW, of the actors Corrado Nuzzo and Maria Di Biase. In duo with the guitar player Antonio Stragapede he has recently began the precious collaborations with the brasilian poetress MARCIA THEOPHILO and the italian actor MARIO BARZAGHI. In 2002 he founded FANFARA BUREK, playing with it in the most important italian buskers festivals. Since May 2009 he is the drummer of the band ETNIA SUPER SANTOS. He has conducted for four years a music workshop in the underage prison of Bologna and teached drumset and percussions in the Popular School of Music Ivan Illich. He works in the DANCE STUDY CENTRE CHOREA of Bologna, making with the dancer MONICA GIANNINI workshops about instinctive movement and afro-contemporary dance. Recently he started to collaborate with the italian singer EVY ARNESANO, recording with her some tracks for the CD " La tipa ideale", and with the serbian bands BIZAR BAZAR and SVI NA POD, taking part to their incoming CDs, and performing in some live concerts .
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Born and grown up in Massafra (TA) - Italy, he moved to Bologna where he studied music in the POPULAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC IVAN ILLICH, attending courses about drumset, traditional italian frame drums, caribbean percussions. He took part also to many workshops, deepening the techniques of improvisation with Fabrizio Puglisi, Tristan Honsinger, Bob Moses, Misha Mengelberg, Michael Riessler, Phil Minton, John Tilbury, Pierre Favre. He followed also workshops about brasilian music with Airto Moreira; about serbian traditional music with Dragan Nikolic; about iranian percussions with D.Chemirani; about gnawa ritual music with Omar Hayat and Essaouira's musicians, about arabian-andalusian percussions with Mohamed Acdur from the National Orchestra of Tangeri; about darbuka from Maghreb with Marzouk Mejri and many others about traditional music from South Italy. He has played as drummer or percussionist in many bands, among which: Grupo Cienfuegos from Milano, recording with them the CD Bacatà (Godagoda Records) in 2003; Bologna Klezmer Kapelye, recording with them the homonym CD in 2003. He has collaborated with many acting companies and writers and he appears in some movies. In the present time he plays with GRATTULA BEDDATTULA; with UCCELLACCI, (he published with them the homonym CD in 2004 for the label Etnagigante). He has collaborations with the bands Trimuzike from Milano and AbRe from Belgrade (Serbia) and with the singer Vincenzo Scruci. From 2005 he plays drumset in the variety show for teather THE NUZZO DI BIASE LIVE SHOW, of the actors Corrado Nuzzo and Maria Di Biase. In duo with the guitar player Antonio Stragapede he has recently began the precious collaborations with the brasilian poetress MARCIA THEOPHILO and the italian actor MARIO BARZAGHI. In 2002 he founded FANFARA BUREK, playing with it in the most important italian buskers festivals. Since May 2009 he is the drummer of the band ETNIA SUPER SANTOS. He has conducted for four years a music workshop in the underage prison of Bologna and teached drumset and percussions in the Popular School of Music Ivan Illich. He works in the DANCE STUDY CENTRE CHOREA of Bologna, making with the dancer MONICA GIANNINI workshops about instinctive movement and afro-contemporary dance. Recently he started to collaborate with the italian singer EVY ARNESANO, recording with her some tracks for the CD " La tipa ideale", and with the serbian bands BIZAR BAZAR and SVI NA POD, taking part to their incoming CDs, and performing in some live concerts .
