PAOLO AMULFI, Paolo Amulfi was born in Florence. He began to study guitar when he was 10, devoting himself to the rock and blues music. Afterwards he began his live concerts activity (in the mid ‘70s) playing with various bands (rock, blues, funky, metal, fusion etc.) From 1987 to 1993 he thaught electric guitar in the Lizard School of Fiesole where he mainly hold courses of rock and blues music. In 1994 he built up the Blues Power Band playing for some years in the pubs and at the festivals in the north of Europe; with this group he succeeds in showing his strong aptitudes towards the blues music performing above all passages from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Recently he has created the Paolo Amulfi Band. He has published three methods for guitar, edited by Berben: "Il blues Elettrico", "Classic Sound" and "La Chitarra Ritmica" (the last one in cooperation with the guitarist Luigi Gagliardi). For some years he cooperated with the magazine "Chitarre", publishing transcriptions in the index book "chitarra rock". In 1998 he founded, with Luigi Gagliardi and Gianni Zei, the Guitar Training project... Funplugged is the name of the duo Paolo Amulfi and Laura Vicini, which has been playing for some years in Italy and in the north of Europe performing passages from the pop, rock and blues repertoire in unplugged version. With the duo Funplugged he won the "EMERGENZA ACOUSTIC FESTIVAL" award as best guitarist...He plays the bass in the rock/blues band Blu Tail. He plays sessions in records, soundtrack's production and in important tours for many Italian artists: Anna Oxa, Gianni Morandi, Marco Masini, Mia Martini, Laura Vicini - singer of strongly pop-rock vocation, began her professional activity in 1992 while studying at the university. She used to sing in many places in Florence and Tuscany interpreting various kinds of music. Thanks to the immediate success of public and her personal style, she soon got noticed by some Florentine authors with whom she cooperated performing unpublished songs in some musical events at national level; she is appreciated both by the press and the public ranking at the first places. She was also noticed by the vocal teacher Francesco Ronchetti who, through a brief cycle of lessons, stimulated Laura to strengthen more and more her particular interpretative and compositive vocal talent as well as her rock nature. In few years Laura comes through different musical experiences, still as soloist singer, with musicians coming from many parts of Italy. She has the opportunity of improving herself taking some lessons with Iskra Menarini (vocalist of Lucio Dalla). Besides, she collaborates with some producers of dance-music for one year, for whom she make some records, some of which with the pseudonym of AUDRA J. for the record company DWA. In 1996 Laura begins an artistic cooperation with BMG in Rome.Aleandro Baldi, Francesca Alotta, Alessandro Canino, Dik Dik, Camaleonti, Maurizio Vandelli, Federico Salvatore, Marco Baroni, Ka Bizzarro, G. Povia, Ima, M. Fiori, L. Tamberi., M. Ortiz, Gosia Pearl...
Laura Vicini - singer of strongly pop-rock vocation, she used to sing in many places in Italy and Europe interpreting various kinds of music. Thanks to the immediate success of public and her personal style, she soon got noticed by some Florentine authors with whom she cooperated performing unpublished songs in some musical events at national level; she is appreciated both by the press and the public ranking at the first places. She was also noticed by the vocal teacher Francesco Ronchetti who, through a brief cycle of lessons, stimulated Laura to strengthen more and more her particular interpretative and compositive vocal talent as well as her rock nature. In few years Laura comes through different musical experiences, still as soloist singer, with musicians coming from many parts of Italy. She has the opportunity of improving herself taking some lessons with Iskra Menarini (vocalist of Lucio Dalla). Besides, she collaborates with some producers of dance-music for one year, for whom she make some records, some of which with the pseudonym of AUDRA J. for the record company DWA. In 1996 Laura begins an artistic cooperation with BMG in Rome. She met Paolo Amulfi in 1997 and together started the Fuplugged acoustic projeect. Laura is gratuated in marine biology.