Name:  Emanuele
Surname:  Casali
Birthday:  December 31st 1980 (Capricorn)
Birthplace:  Rome - Italy

Story:   When I was a child my parents wanted me to study music but, because of a toy that made me scared, I put my hands on an Elka organ just at 11... and I liked that :-)
Later on, thanks to my mom who had been playing the guitar on her belly until a little time before my birth, I started playing the guitar, too. My proper study started at 15 when my teacher Roberta Zago decided to lead me to my current teacher Mariano D'Amelio who guided me to get my degree at piano conservatory.
Anyway I kapt the guitar as my second instrument - even though as years went by I tried the bass (which my brother Andrea felt in love with) and the drums. I had a little while in a polyphonic chorus of holy music... I'm in tune but the timbre is not that good - so I just sing in backing vocals :-P
When I was 18 I bought my first keyboard and I had my first experiences in performing live and hard disk recording. By that time another kind of music - different from the classical one - was invading my life: Dire Straits, Guns'n'Roses, Queen, Iron Maiden, Metallica, but overall Dream Theater. After all this, I started listening to everything.

My bands & projects:  
Astra, official italian Dream Theater tribute band 2002/2006 and metal prog band
DGM, power prog metal band
Empyrios, thrash prog metal band
Prisoners In Paradise, Europe cover band
Fahrenheit, Toto cover band
Ganzi e Rozzi, Guns'n'Roses cover band (rythm guitar)

Favourite bands/artists:   Dream Theater, Symphony X, Derek Sherinian, Virgil Donati, Billy Sheehan, Pantera, Yanni, the 80s, Claude Debussy, Ludwig Van Beethoven... and the well played music! ;-)


MSN contact:
info@emanuelecasali.com