"I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time"

Charles Mingus

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I was born in a small Tuscan town, in a cold afternoon in March, it was snowing my mom told me. I discovered as a baby, thanks to a cousin who me makes a gift, the Bontempi, an electric organ famous in Italy in the 70s.
My first relationship with a tool is already bi-functional: regular keyboard for the right, buttons for accompaniment for the left. A sort of puffing horizontal accordion. In elementary school the first electronic keyboard, then the synth, after the piano and the hard study. From high school on, at the end I’ve study, play, listen, rehearse with friends, writing music, puzzling about which was the direction that my music should take, and convince more and more that the only answer lies in “doing” rather than “thinking”.
Classical music and the classic study led me to ask me questions about complicated musical approach, jazz and African-American music have formed me in musical pragmatism: high theory and collective practice, philosophical questions and sweat in reharsals.
All my musical life thrives on this bi-functionality, Bontempi organ forward.

I believe that in the end even my music, like that of many musicians of the century, just follow this evolutionary line, to try to harmonize European higher theoretical knowledge with that spontaneous moods of Africa, America and other cultures.
It ‘an old story that, I know; but I feel I still participate.
And with the addition of the third element of the individual personality that’s it! You should independently create a fantastic music! Easy to say but hard to works!
Finally, after having acquired the skills in the field of European classical music (Conservatory, composition, music education, etc) and in that of Afro-American music (seminars and concerts blues, jazz and rock and popular music) I am on the threshold of forty years in order and having to ‘forget’ all I have learned to begin to express myself through my music.