I was born in Cosenza/Italy...when I was three, I discovered my unstoppable passion for drums.... I was listening for hours and hours my old 45 rpm red vinyl record player (front loading!!!), listening to the 70's dirty funk music (the same tune for hours and hours ...it started w/a super-phunk HH/Snare/Kick groove). At the age of 10, Led Zeppelin stepped violently into my life (directly from my Mom's personal discography, including Joe Tex, James Brown, The Stones, Deep Purple, Ike & Tina etc etc...) and on the "mature" age of 13, I started beating every object I could reach in my room... till the first REAL drumset arrived.... On my 14th birthday, I started my first band ever, "The Rifles" (what a bad name.....) and soon after "The Power Infusion" (metal oriented, w/school mates). Some years after, HEADCRASHER comes out from my mind and 3 demos, 2 official albums and gigs all over Italy and part of Europe will come....(between 1985 and 1991). On sept 90, I moved from Cosenza to Torino where I started attending professional drums lessons (w/ Gigi Morello , also on MySpace) and between 1991 and today, I travelled 2 times over the US and all over Europe and Australia. Through the years, I joined dozens of bands like NEFERTARI, LA COSA, THIS EVOL TASTE, N.I.A. PUNX, NERORGASMO, 2.0, MERCALL!, KUTFACES and many more... Since 2002, THE ART OF ZAPPING (see myspace profile), is my main interest and activity, actually we're working on the 4th studio album. Actually I got my own recording studio (w/Roby Sanna also in THE ART OF ZAPPING), called BLUEPRINT STUDIO (all T.A.O.Z. productions and other, comes out of it) and I work Production Assistant in the MusicLabStudio Staff (www.musiclabstudio.com), based in the wonderfull complex of "La Suoneria" in Settimo Torinese (TO). In May 2005, I started my Official endorsement for UFIP CYMBALS.
Since 1997 I work as a Rock Dj/selecter (Transilvania/Torino, Babylonia/Biella, Cafè Blue/Torino, Fluido/Torino, Mondo Musica Cafè/Torino (w/Ninja from Subsonica) etc...
My current brand new project is KUTFACES , ass kickin' funk/rockin' rap!!!
Main collaborations through the years: Nicolò Fragile, Piero Cassano, Caparezza, 99 Posse, Db Boulevard, Namb, Medusa, Mao, Tribà , Luca Ragagnin, Carlo Rossi, Domenico Mungo, Peter Sharp, Tasters, Mc Victor and others....
That's all for the moment, check out forward for updates, fellas!!!! later....roby.
MY LIVE/STUDIO/PRACTICE GEAR:
DRUMKITS DW PDP LX (BD20/FT18/FT16/TT14/TT12/SD14).
GRETSCH CATALINA CLUB (BD22/FT16/TT12/SD14).
PEARL RHYTHM TRAVELER (BD16/FT14/TT12/TT10/SD12).
PEARL DTEXPRESS.
SNARES: TAMA Starclassic Maple 5 1/2x14.
CYMBALS: UFIP (Ride Bionic 20/Crash Brilliant 14/16/18 Splash Class 12/China Class 18/HH Natural 13/HH Brilliant 14/Ice Bell 6)
HARDWARE: BD Double Pedal Pearl eliminator, Bd Pedal Tama, Bd Pedal Gibraltar).
HH Stand PDP/Pearl/Gibraltar.
Drum Heads: Evans G2/J1/G1
Remo: Pinstripe/AMbassador.
Sticks: Vic Firth 55A, Vic Firth METAL.
