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GuitarBo

About Me

BO: voice-guitar.GuitarBo born as Alberto Toffoli from the very beginning he was fascinated by those sounds they call blues. So he began to study music and what impressed him most is that day by day these sounds , smells and colours he had never smelled or seen . Before became part of his life he started his journay studied by your self. Later he was helped by Roberto Ortolan an eccletic venetian gitarist , a session-man of know Italian-singers. He made GuitarBo discover the hard blues of the Texan Stevie Ray Vaughan and the sweet melodies of BB King. He studied then for a year at the Lizard of Fiesole a school for modern and contemporary music. GuitarBo grew up influenced by the Chicago blues of BBKing, and Muddy Waters, the funk sound of Tower of Power and Stevie Wonder , Ray Charles , Hendrix Wilson Picket, Clapton . The brecktrough came in 2000 when he had the opportunity to play in Austin TX . These he got in touch with the know bluesman such as Jimmy Vaughan , James cotton and Alan Hayines.He also palyed in clubs of the capital of the music. As he returned from his journey he recorced his first CD entitled Live in Darshan with the typical sound of Power Trio . In that time he played in the whole region of Veneto. He won the Emergenza Acoustic Competition and participated in the national final. In The same year he recorded the second cd entitled MOVIN UP containing so far unpublished song. He played in Rome,Livorno , Firenze, Milano e Bologna . Now he played in Italy Belgium and Holland and work with american native song writer Yowan Nagwetch .
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Member Since: 31/07/2006
Band Members: Bo: guitar-voice Fruzz Andrè: bass
Influences: Enrico Crivellaro great italian guitarist, B.B King, S.R.V.,Freddy King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Stevie Wonder.
Sounds Like: Funk , Blues , Rock.
Type of Label: Major