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Antonio Gentile
Member Since: 2004 | Location: Rome | Page Views: 2,073About Me
BIOGRAPHY Antonio Gentile born in Florence on April, 6th, 1961 and starts to play percussion at the age of 16. He starts to study Afrocuban percussion together with Karl Potter. He studies music theory with Bruno Tommaso and starts playing jazz on the 80's. In fact at the age of 20 he becames a professional musician playing either jazz or latin music or pop or classical. He meets the Peruvian singer and percussionist Manuel Bramon and knows the Afro Peruvian tipical instrument called cajon. At the same time he studies the Afro-brasilian and the Afro-colombian music as well the west African drumming with the African master Assane Adissa. In his twenty-aged career he has played with artists and bands as Gabriella Ferri, D-note, Vili Lakatos, Mambo Kids, Urban Funk, Canela. He's founder and co-leader of a lot of bands like Off Beat, Icnusa, Bluesource, Guarar
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This page was last updated on 2004-02-06.
