Italian folk musician
He was born in Cosenza, Calabria, on 10/02/1973. He has been passionate about popular music since childhood, attending, thanks to his father, the battente guitar players of the Sila Greca. He began playing and studying guitar as a self-taught at the age of 8, perfecting his studies from various masters. In 1996 he graduated from the University of Calabria in Modern Literature with full marks with a thesis on Calabrian music and popular instruments. Subsequently he collaborates for several years with the Demo-anthropological Documentation Center of the Calabrian University, directed by Prof. Ottavio Cavalcanti, with whom he participates, as a researcher, in the cataloging of the Otello Profazio archive and in the creation of several documentaries including: Gitani in Provence (Le Saintes Maries de la Mer, France) and the serpari of Cocullo. In 1996, after 10 years of research, he published with the publisher Squilibri "The drums of the Casali, players and builders of Sila Grande", a volume that contains the results of the research carried out in Sila (Calabria), on the tradition of "tummarini" , traditional military drum and bass drum players. In 2004 he founded the Neilos association of which he is president, which is responsible for researching and disseminating the popular traditions of Southern Italy; in the same year, the association gave birth to a musical group of the same name. With the Neilos he makes numerous tours in Italy and abroad (United States, France, Germany, etc.). In 2006 he publishes with Imilibri, the Cd “Transumanza” in which he composes the music and many of the texts. From 2014 he started, through participation in the activities of the "Tury Band" group, a study on the new migration dynamics of Southern Italy, participating both as a musician and as a scholar in events held in England (Preston) and Germany (Frankfurt on the Main). Between 2016 and 2019 he made numerous tours in the United States and Canada carrying out several concert-lessons in San Francisco, Springfield, Washington, Grensboro (NC), New York, Ottawa, etc. He currently lives in Rossano where he teaches History and Philosophy at the Liceo Classico San Nilo di Rossano In recent years he has devoted himself to the study of various instruments, including the bagpipe, the lute, the bouzouki, the battente guitar and the accordion.