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Emanuele Casali

There's always something to learn!

About Me

When I was a child my parents wanted me to study music but, because of a toy that made me scared, I put my hands on an Elka organ just at 11... and I liked that :-)
Later on, thanks to my mom who had been playing the guitar on her belly until a little time before my birth, I started playing the guitar, too. My proper study started at 15 when my teacher Roberta Zago decided to lead me to my current teacher Mariano D'Amelio - he is currently guiding me to get my degree at piano conservatory.
Anyway I kapt the guitar as my second instrument - even though as years went by I tried the bass (which my brother Andrea felt in love with) and the drums. I had a little while in a polyphonic chorus of holy music... I'm in tune but the timbre is not that good - so I just sing in backing vocals :-P
When I was 18 I bought my first keyboard and I had my first experiences in performing live and hard disk recording. By that time another kind of music - different from the classical one - was invading my life: Dire Straits, Guns'n'Roses, Queen, Iron Maiden, Metallica, but overall Dream Theater. After all this, I started listening to everything.
My bands & projects:
Astra, official italian Dream Theater tribute band 2002/2006 and metal prog band
Empyrios, thrash prog metal band
Prisoners In Paradise, Europe cover band
Fahrenheit, TOTO cover band
DGM, Prog Power Band
DGM LIVE @GODS OF METAL 2007
("New Life" Solos)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/24/2006
Band Website: emanuelecasali.com
Influences: Dream Theater, Symphony X, Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati, Billy Sheehan, Pantera, Toto, Yanni, the 80s, Claude Debussy, Ludwig Van Beethoven... and the well played music! ;-)
Record Label: Burning Star
Type of Label: Indie