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Matteo Bassi

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Biography:
Matteo Bassi was born in 1979 in a little town close to Milan. At age of 6 he startedplaying an elastic strings toy guitar. At 10 he started taking piano and classicalmusic lessons from his middle school teacher Lidia Vignoni and from his father,Maurizio Bassi - a worldwide fame hit maker,arranger and producer (featon.Baltimora "Tarzan Boy", Eros Ramazzotti...). From the date he was born, he justbreathed music 24h a day;his father recorded many records in his "La Busseria"home-recording studio and Matteo was often to sit back the control room to see all thatmusical "toys" working hard! He spent hours between great musicians,MIDI languages andbrand new musical technologies that later deeply influenced him and his way to look at musicalproductions .
Before that he began to make of music his future, Matteo was amused tosing and to play bass, at the age of 13, with the bands of its companions of school. At age of 16 Matteostarted also taking bass lessons from Riccardo Fioravanti, one of the most popularand appreciate Italian Jazz musicians.
After a little,fast and furious experience with several club cover bands in Milan (special thanx to ALE E NICO BENZ), Matteo wasintroduced to Max Pezzali's producers Claudio Cecchetto and Pier Paolo Peroni andstarted his carrer as bassplayer in the italian pop band 883. Matteo started touringand playing live with them, all over his country and Europe , driving more than 300000 km,from 1999 to 2002 ,playing bass for more than 1.000.000 people on live concerts,tv showsand festivals across the Europe, meeting famous huge stars like Sting,ErosRamazzotti, Jayz, Lionel Ritchie, Robbie Williams andPope Giovanni Paolo II (on Jubilee 2000,live tv show from Vatican, Paolo VI's GrandHall).
In 2002 he released a solo album (written,performed and arranged by himself)titled "Vivo sulla luna" as Matteo Bassi, produced by Claudio Cecchetto and PierPaolo Peroni, and he started many promotional activities for his project, appearing on TV onmany italian musical programs (Festivalbar,Mediaset,RAI,MTV,Allmusic,VideoItalia etc..) andon all the biggest italian radio stations (Rtl102.5,Rds,Radio Italia..etc), as an "hot rotation",with the radio hit track titled "IL TELECOMANDO".He also played live, asguest/supporter, with Jamiroquai @ Tim tour summer festival.
During last years, Matteo started playing bass as session man, most with hisbrother Emiliano Bassi on drum, with many italian artists who looked at them forstudio bass/drum recordings, tours and Tv promotionalactivities.
Matteo plays and works with: Laura Pausini , Eros Ramazzotti, 883, Tazenda, Francesco Renga, Nek, Loredana Berte', Gianna Nannini, Syria, Lisa Stansfield, Mondo Marcio, MOKA, Niccolo' Agliardi, Gianluca Grignani, Paolo Meneguzzi, Francesco Facchinetti, Enzo Jannacci, Fausto Leali, Aulicino, Etnorchestra, New Tribal Movement and more....
Laura Pausini "Resta in ascolto" live
Laura Pausini "Tra te e il mare" live (Matteo "underpressure" Bassi on BASS)
Gianna Nannini - promo TV "Scalo 76" .. "Suicidi d'amore"
LOREDANA BERTE' 2007 MUSICULTURA
DJ FRANCESCO BAND Festival di San Remo 2005 (Feat. MAX PEZZALI)
PAOLO MENEGUZZI FavolaTour 2005 (Luca Mattioni (KB), Diego Corradin (DR), Fabrizio Frigeni (GTR), Matteo Bassi (BS) )

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Member Since: 2/10/2007
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My Blog

"Costruire" di Niccolo Fabi

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Posted by Matteo Bassi on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:26:00 PST

"Il contrabbasso" di Patrick Suskind

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Posted by Matteo Bassi on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:26:00 PST

"L'ANIMALE" di Franco Battiato

..> L'animale ..> Vivere non è difficile potendo poi rinascerecambierei molte cose un po' di leggerezza e di stupidità.Fingere tu riesci a fingere quando ti trovi accanto a memi dai sempre ragione...
Posted by Matteo Bassi on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:38:00 PST