• I began playing guitar when I was about 13 years old. My training began studying by myself continued taking my first lessons from various musicians in and around Lecce.
  • Since 2001 till 2003 I studied rock music with the guitarist Salvatore Russo.
  • Since 2003 I studied fingerstyle guitar with the great guitarist Paolo Giordano in Pescara (ITA).
  • During years, I played with various local bands, throughout all music genres.
  • I attended a lot of workshops, as the ones with Brett Garsed, Andy Timmons, William Stravato, Antonio Forcione, Pietro Nobile, Massimo Varini, Stochelo Rosenberg, Andrea Braido, Preston Reed, and so on.
  • In 2006 I attended Computer Music and HD Recording workshop by Roberto Giglio.
  • In 2007 the prog-rock band Shedim was born with whom I recorded two promo CDs (\"Shedim\" and \"Indietro...nel vento\") and with whom I played in different live stage. 
  • In 2010 some of my compositions were used for the making of a scientific documentary in the Ecology museum, inside the Punta Palascia lighthouse in Otranto (ITA).
  • Since 2007 till 2011 I have been guitarist and co-founder of the band Silvered. I recorded with them the studio albums (\"Music For Your Sleepless Nights\"; “Dying Light” and “Grave of Deception”) and one live album (“The Unplugged Night LIVE”), I partecipated to radio and tv programs and webzines, I performed hundreds of gigs, opening to various bands including The Foreshadowing, Rezophonic and Andrea Braido.
  • In 2011, I started the path on neofolk music, as the band\'s guitarist NID with whom I recorded a promo cd \"Nature In Disguise\" and in 2013, after several gigs in Italy (in 2013 with Spiritual Front), with this band we gave birth to our first full-length on the label \"La Esencia\" entitled \"A Fair Masquerade\".
  • In 2013 I begin to work on my solo project HELFIR with which I was lucky to perform alongside the band Antimatter in their Italian tour.
  • In October 2015 I was on tour with Orphaned Land in Hungary and Italy to promote my first album \"Still Bleeding\", released by My Kingdom Music label.
  • In 2017, again with the HELFIR project, I released my second album \"The Human Defeat\". 
  • In 2020, after much effort, HELFIR\'s third album, “The Journey” was released and I am currently busy promoting it.
  • At the same time, in these years, I continue my live and studio activity in many bands.

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