MASSIMILIANO GAUDIO BIOGRAPHY Massimiliano Gaudio musician, guitar player, music producer, author, has cooperated with artists both at national and international level, he has arranged music for movies and documentaries and commercials. He was born in Caserta, Italy, in 1973. He has been breathing art ever since he was a child: at the age of eleven he starts playing the guitar, his father Sergio is a guitar player and a composer, his mother Rosa Arbolino is a painter and a choreographer, two of his uncles (Luigi Arbolino and Dario Gaudio) are very good guitar players. He plays in several bands coming form different musical background. Music for Massimiliano has no borders! He cooperate with Franco Del Prete (Napoli Centrale, the Showman) from 2002 to 2008 by playing with his guitars, bouzouky and choir group (Sud Express) and by writing together with him and some other authors important songs belonging to the “L’Ultimo Apache CD” (Rai Trade). In 2009 he plays classic, acoustic and electric guitar with Nello Daniele, also taking part to the video “Se t’innamorerai”. He participates as a guitar player in important singing contests, such as, among others, Premio Bianca d’Aponte (Caserta), Limatola Festival (Benevento), Botteghe d’Autore (Salerno), Emergenza Rock (Roma), Royal Rock Festival (Caserta) etc. In 2012 he plays classic and acoustic guitar at the “Epifania Concert” (Rai 1) with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra directed by master Renato Serio, accompanying artists such as Nick and the Nightfly, Teresa Salgueiro (Madredeus), Lura, Francesco Baccini etc. In 1997 he has been part of the staff of Sergio Tomassone from Bologna (Best luthier and guitar shop in Italy). Massimiliano’s education in the music field has always been inspired to the greatest guitar’s myths such as David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Al Di Meola etc. But above all it has been influenced by the constant listening to greatest artists such as Miles Davies, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Wyclef Jean, Seal, Ben Harper etc. as well as to Musics from the World (Africa, India etc.) and to electronic music, house music etc. He works as an author and guitar player in cooperation with Dj Pippi in the following pieces: - Sunset over escodolar (A TOUCH OF CLASS 1 – Aluminium Records) - A touch (A TOUCH OF CLASS 2 – Aluminium Records). The same piece, with the same label, is included in the Las Tardes en Ibiza vol. 3 CD Between 2009 and 2010 he creates the music for the commercial of Magnaghi, worldwide leader in the construction of airplane elements as well as the soundtrack of the short film “LA DOMITIANA where there is no street there is no civilization” and “ARAPHA The girl with white eyes” directed by Romano Montesarchio (Both works have been purchased and distributed by RAI 3, BBC and other broadcasting stations around the world). Furthermore he works as an author of music in cooperation with Nini’ Giacomelli, poetess and author of texts for Luis Bacalov, Cahrles Aznavur, Gianni Morandi, Ornella Vanoni, Sergio Cammariere, Peppe Voltarelli etc and he has taken an important part to prestigious music events such as Premio Tenco, Shamano and Showman Festival of humorous and author music. He has been playing classic, electric, acoustic guitar and other instruments for 25 years. He works as a “session man” guitar player in recording industry and television field as well as live. Here are some of the artists he has met, so far, during his life as a musician: Statico Dinamico, Jil Badaro', Panacea, Franco del Prete e i Sud Express, Gino Licata, Pio del Prete, Jennà Romano, Agostino Imposimato, Pasquale Iadicicco, Roberto Marangio, Troels Skovgaard, Mikala Bosetti, Dfc, Lucky di Blasio, Nuccio Tortora, i Collage, Raiz (Almamegretta), Marco Zurzolo, Simone Lino, Max Pieri, Ernesto Vitolo, Maurizio Stellato e Marta Argenio (The Actions), Mimì Ciaramella, Vittorio Remino, Enrico Quaranta, Carlo Senatore, Enzo Canoro , Mario Ciro Sorrentino, Giovanni Sorvillo, Lino Pariota, Gianfranco Campagnoli, Sabba e gli Incensurabili, Antonello Carozza, Riccardo Ceres, L'Aura, Viviana Santoro, Nair, Piero Mazzocchetti, Michela Montalto, Joe de Marco, Nello Daniele, Mino Berlano, Peppe Vertaldi, Clemente Amoroso, Patrizia Cirulli, Francesco Gravina, Ettore Gatta, Pasquale Esposito, Liprando, Gianni Cafiero, Carvin Jones Band, Luca Varavallo, Peppe Rienzo, Lorenzo Natale, Le Stanze Sonore, Rosario Jermano, Carlo Faiello, Paky Palmieri, Nick The Nightfly,Teresa Salgueiro, Lura, Alessandro Anzalone, Lello Musella, Dj Pippi, Lusya, Francesco Baccini..ecc. ecc.