About Me
Born in Naples studies percussions with teachers of conservatory,subsequently it has been moved to Rome in order to be confronted and
to learn important rudimenti of Afro-Cuban patrimony con:KARL POTTER,
KAIRO FLORES, R.MAMEY EVANGELISTI;da Rome has collaborated (in the
role di:CONGUERO, BONGOCERO and TIMBALERO)con several orchestras
SALSA, carrying out in Europe one good activity.
It is specialized to CUBA in rhythms and tools Afro Cubans with the teachers JUSTO PELLADITO,CARLOS ALDAMA PEREZ,CHINO ANGEL CHANG,REYNALDO HERNANDEZ GOYITO,GUILLERMO LOPEZ CLEMENTE,NENE' ALEJANDRO CARVAJAL,HUMBERTO LA PELICULA,IRIAN LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ(LOS CHINITOS); to NEW YORK with JOHN AMIRA , in AFRICA(Senegal), with SING SING AND GIBRIN FAYE of Dakà r and BRASIL in several "schools of samba" participating to the famous carnival in RIO DE JANEIRO .
It is taken an interest different musical expressions what Salsa, Jazz, Funky, Ethnic, Wordmusic and he participates in shows of dance as percussionist, singer, ballet dancer and performer.SOUND FROM WHEN IT WAS CHILDREN!... binding together To the DRUM the
song and the dance, has DEBUT in public to fourteen years
"BASCKERS"x the roads of Naples, the first one engages
professional is in 1981(con EDUARDO DE CRESCENZO, PRODUCTION CLAUDIO
MATTONE).GIOVANNI IS AN"ART MASTER"
In 1989 he has composed music for theater to the Festival of Todi;to the beginning of years ninety has shared an important
plan of ETNIC-JAZZ"XENIA"(with:PINO and PIETRO JODICE, ROCCO ZIFARELLI, PAUL
MC CANDLESS), with which he continues goes to collaborate and to create GREAT music!.
IN 1991 COLLABORATION With the GREAT PRODUCER GIANCARLO LUCARIELLO, FIRST
ARTISTIC PLAN To ITS NAME, "ASSA FA A MADONNA"(advance the
fashion musicale"world music");IN 1993 "YORUBA":IN 1995 "SENSI";IN 2005"KUBA SOUND SYSTEM PROYECTO"(with MARA MIGLIACCIO and ALESSANDRO MAZZA HULLABALOO production).
.He has studied sacred song to Cuba with Goyo Hernandez and Lazaro Ros, and in Italy with the "Tenore" Luigi Rumbo and the soprano Rosanna Rossoni. Contemporarily to the song, he has deepened study of dance with the Cuban dancer Carmen de Armas.
Currently he TEACHES RHYTHMS and AFRO-CUBAN PERCUSSIONS to Rome,to SAINT LOUIS COLLEGE MUSIC SCHOOL and:Naples, Cagliari,Firenze,Bologna,Milano,Reggio Calabria,Lecce.It has lead dei"MASTER"di specialization di"AFRO-CUBAN CONCEPT"a
Perugia and it will moreover lead it to Lecce.Ha often collaborated in
shows and didactic programs us sul"GROOVE EXPERIENCE" with the great
MAURIZIO DEI LAZZARETTI. He is Endoser of the :REMO,PAISTE,SHALLOCK,RHYTM TECH,PROEL,KAMBALA percussions and he teaches exclusively in Italy DRUMCIRCLE for the MANANARA Company. He has combined spontaneously always the technical-musical learning with the own existential research, in fact he is fascinated by the ritual used of the drums and with the concept "Shamanic" and "Maieutic"into the music. In this experience he has collaborated with Arnold Kayserling,Ferro Ledvinka,A.Belloni,A.Comneno;currently it continues with Giuliana Margani. In this last few years he is part of an evolutionary program, a job of spiritual-way;s research by the SHAMANIC CONCEPTS; point of view where the music occupies a fundamental role, has fed besides the proper intuitive aspect and inherent arcane learning to the music formulating three types of experiences:Rituals Simulations
It's a technique whose objective is that to furnish the development of the ability through the sound of the music and the primitive use of and ancestral's languages like percussions, song and dance.The Center
In the beganing of the original healer function of the music,(borned like spiritual's way, to balance of thin energies about our own musical instrument indiscriminately by all, the center of the innate artistic essence in each of us.Ritual drums
In the spiritual's walk the preference is teaching drums because their specific function and their ability to serve from medium with thin energies.The learning of each of these rhythms called toque gravitates around to the knowledges of the etnies and the cults afrocuban.He is juror to the drum cerimonial(AÑa'), every time that is to
practical Cuba the batà drums in the"yoruba"ritual's...in 2008 the given back" PONTIFF"have the ancient order of the TEMPLARI, the
2 february in trani port"GIOVANNIMPARATObbanyòko"in this occasion is officially
playing the drums to a commemorative ritual that did not happen
from 700 years!!!!!Out of the Italy he has collaborated with:
PACO DE LUCIA, RAY CHARLES,CHICO BUARQUE,LAZARO ROS,GREGORIO HERNANDEZ GOYO,ISSAC DELGADO,CONJUNTO FOLKLORICO NACIONAL DE CUBA,RUMBEROS DE CUBA,FARIÑAS,RAICES PROFUNDA,OBINI'BATA',LUIS CHACON MENDIVE ASPIRINA,BOBBY CARCASSES,ALFREDO DE LA FE',CHARANGA HABANERA,VINX,RICHIE HAVENS,SARA J MORRIS,HENRY CONNICK JR, GEORGE GARZONE, FORREST BUTCHELL,JOHN ZORN,JOY BARON,STEPHANE USHARD,SAYHNKO,BABA SISSOKO.In Italy he has collaborated with:
MINA, RICCARDO COCCIANTE, ORNELLA VANONI, GIGI PROIETTI, JAMES SENESE,STEFANO DI BATTISTA,ALEX BRITTI, LUCA BARBAROSSA, RENATO ZERO, ANDREA BOCELLI, GIANNI MORANDI, MIETTA, SAMUELE BERSANI, NUOVA COMPAGNIA DI CANTO POPOLARE, EUGENIO BENNATO, CARLO D'ANGIO,BISCA,99POSSE,BABYRA SOUL,DANIELE SEPE, MIA MARTINI, MANGO, LORETTA GOGGI, GIORGIA, TOSCA, PAOLA TURCI, MASSIMO RANIERI, ZENIMA, GIGLIOLA CINQUETTI, GIANLUIGI DI FRANCO, TONY ESPOSITO, TULLIO DE PISCOPO, ROSSANA CASALE, GEGE' TELESFORO, MIMMO LOCASCIULLI, PEPPINO DI CAPRI, PIPPO CARUSO, FRED BONGUSTO, ENZO GRAGNANIELLO, GINO PAOLI, FRANCESCO DE GREGORI, ALESSANDRO MARA, (produzione di EROS RAMAZZOTTI),LUCREZIA LANTE DELLA ROVERE,CRISTIANO DE ANDRE',NINO D'ANGELO,MIKE FRANCIS, ALEX BARONI;finally, it has played various times in many you leave of the world in important world-tour with:RENZO ARBORE "l'orchestra italiana"('91-96),LUCIO DALLA('97) and EROS RAMAZZOTTI('98).Currently it collaborates with:MYSTIC DIVERSIONS (project Mike Francis lounge),BIG BUBBLING BAND,ELECTRIC JAZZ BAND with ROCCO ZIFARELLI.
IN SEPTEMBER 2007"GIOVANNIMPARATObbanyòko" IT HAS BEEN INVITED
OFFICIALLY To the HABANA To the FIRST FESTIVAL OF RUMBA"timbalaye",
WITH a ITS PLAN "TAMMUMBA", THAN DEEP NEAPOLITAN MUSIC AND
AFROCUBANA!(al"palenque", al"salon rosado benny morè", to
the "UNIA"ed to knows it newsgroups of the hotel "riviera"con
"rumberos de cuba": interviews and showy consents a"radio
taino", to leyda oquendo, to fidel pajares, Miguel barnet... very famous
exponents of the Cuban culture).In 2008:The PLAN tribal-ambient DISTRIBUTED IN the world"obbanyoko"in
EXITS COLLABORATION WITH FRANCO MICALIZZIIN YOU OPEN WILL BE PUBLISHED THEM "THE SOUND OF THE TAROCCHI",
22 MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS INSPIRED TO MYSTERIOUS OF THE TAROTS AND THE
EXACTAS TO MUSICS OF CULT OF"AFRO-CUBAN ORICHAS"!... WITH A
BOOK MORE THE PAPERS...IT IS COMPLETING the MIX OF ONE PLAN of
original-JAZZ-AFROCUBANO "BISOGNO-IMPARATO"with PIERPAOLO BISOGNO.PAST MARCH HAS INTRODUCED To the AUDITORIUM Of the CONSERVATORY IN
ROME, A NEW PLAN OF JAZZ MODERNO:"NAPLES: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW",
LIKE EXCEPTION HOST, COLLABORATING WITH PINO And PIETRO JODICE, LUCA
PIROZZI And "IALSAX" OF GIANNI ODDI.Still in you open them to the innaugurazione in the gallery of art
MANIDESIGN HAS PLAYED the SCULPTURES IN METAL OF RICCARDO DALISI,
HAVING GIVEN LIFE TO a PERFORMANCE OF RARE INTERPRETAZIONE(di which it
is in preparation a DVD).it is in preparation a"remake"of vhs!!!!!in DVD:"i BATÃ "; the
FIRST VIDEO To the WORLD(march 2000)WITH BATÃ DRUMS CONCEPTS!...:ORU the DE
IGBODù, IN More Will be, EYà ARANLA, CIERRE Y EGGUNS... ED OTHER
SPECIALLY...
