New artist at IMIsound: “Maurizio Metalli”
October 14th, 2007 —
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Maurizio Metalli is a keyboard player, composer and arranger. He started to study piano at the age of 7 and grew up to the sound of the 70’s symphonic progressive rock bands - Genesis, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant - as well as fusion, jazz-rock bands and artists such as Yellow Jackets, Spyro Gyra, Jeff Lorber, Larry Carlton, Dave Grusin, Gino Vannelli.
He started to work as session man at the age of 20, also appearing in several italian broadcasts on RAI (italian national television) such as Discoring, Domenica In and others. Widely-known as the keyboard player for the italian progressive rock band “Formula 3″ (with Alberto Radius and Tony Cicco), for many years Maurizio has been touring and appearing on national TVs (RAI and Mediaset): La vita in diretta, Taratata’, Sanremo Estate, Sarabanda etc and working in studio recordings: “La Formula 3 a Sarabanda” (1998) and “La folle corsa” (2000).
He has worked as arranger for Vincenzo Incenzo (songwriter, Michele Zarrillo, Renato Zero, PFM), appearing in the famous italian TV broadcast “Help” (TMC2, 1999).
He has toured with Little Tony, Nadia Cassini, Luca Sardella and has made jingles and music for advertising and documentaries for national TVs (RAI and Mediaset).
He recently released instrumental music for “Xis Chillout Compilations” (Portugal, 2005) and recorded for Filippa Giordano (www.filippagiordano.net) in the “Primadonna” album that won the Gold Disc in Japan (2005) and in Mexico (2006).
He’s planning to record a solo album in the next future…
listen to “Pacific Trip”
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