In 2015 I meet the "fingerpicking" guitarist Massimo Bevilacqua, and we choosed to start the "Jumbo Gumbo" project, first as a duo, then expanding the musical project, and making it a trio, together with guitarist Ariel Di Castro with this trio we have jumped, and still we jump, on the stages of the most renowned venues of the Roman and Italian music scene, with over 250 live performances between 20.
I entered in the world of live music collaborating with different groups, both as a solo singer and as a chorister in different bands, ranging from rock to soul / gospel.
At the age of 20, I discovered music as enrichment of my life, that’s the reason why I decide to go deeper into my studies, enrolling in different schools in Rome, including the Saint Louiss School of music where I started to acquire greater vocal technique.
(Lamezia Terme, 1987) my artistic path started at the age of 14 with a street theater company in my city, and it is thanks to street theater that my real and exciting contact with the public begins, through which I learn to get naked by managing also the sudden reactions of passers-by. In 2015, thanks to meeting the "fingerpickin" guitarist Massimo Bevilacqua and the lead singer Doriana Violi, I choosed to start the "Jumbo Gumbo" project, with which, together with an intense live stages activity (more than 250 gigs in 3 years ), and to the writings of original tunes, I specialized more and more in the entertainment of great musical events. During these years, I cast the most important Roman stages (Fonclea, Big Mama etc.) definitely acquiring confidence and experience with the live music world. Having had the first electric guitar as a gift, it pushes me deeper into techniques and styles typical of American music from the 50s-60s-70s, thanks also to Maestro Michelangelo Piperno, who welcomes me among his own students, at the MP School of Rome. (Roma, 1979) since I was a child, I started to have an enormous curiosity towards music, attracted by the haunting sounds of the guitar, and so I started at the age of 8, to study the first rudiments of music, first the classical, and then the artists who always they influenced me: Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Janis Joplin. To date, their music has played a leading role in the union of many dozens of people who asked for their presence and their music for their most beautiful day, going from a soft accompaniment for an aperitif, to a wild dancing party, bringing the Jumbo Gumbo to be an affirmed and recognized reality in the Music for Events scene. Strengthened by their previous personal experiences, the three decide to merge their instruments and their passion in the service of the music that so much keeps them together, the Blues and the Rock and Roll suddenly the live music work becomes intense, to the point they became frequently visitors of the most important Romans and Italians stages but, at the same time, the real musical breakthrough happened at the beginning of 2015 when the three launch into a large and ambitious project that will lead them, to date, to be a significant presence in the scene of musical entertainment for ceremonies, private events, inaugurations, and above all weddings. Jumbo Gumbo is a musical project that was born in Rome in 2014, from the meeting between Massimo Bevilacqua (vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar, stomp box), Ariel Di Castro (electric guitar, choirs), and Doriana Violi (vocals, tambourine, kazoo).