A dream becomes reality
I got my first guitar by age eleven from my father. The neck had more about a banana than the instruments of my idols Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt of Status Quo. Well, don't wonder, it was a classic guitar with steel string! I really didn't care even if that was incredible hard for my fingers. I was just the happiest kid of the world! Since then playing guitar and singing became my biggest passion. With fourteen years I had my first band, playing really acoustic.
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A dream becomes reality
I got my first guitar by age eleven from my father. The neck had more about a banana than the instruments of my idols Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt of Status Quo. Well, don't wonder, it was a classic guitar with steel string! I really didn't care even if that was incredible hard for my fingers. I was just the happiest kid of the world! Since then playing guitar and singing became my biggest passion. With fourteen years I had my first band, playing really acoustic.
With my first salary and my savings I was able to buy my first electric guitar – a meaningful moment not only for my but my parents, brothers and sisters and the whole neighbourhood…no more silence!
Two souls in one body; on the one side the rebel, loud, extrovert, on the other side the melancholy, calm and introvert.
Extrovert: In the 80ies I was a real hardrocker with long hair, tight jeans. Until the beginning of the 90ies I played and sang melodic hardrock.
Introvert: Folk, Blues, Country and Ragtime were also a very important part of me a that time.
In the middle of the 90ies I began to open to different music styles, especially Funk, followed by groovy styles like R'n'B, Soul and Acid Jazz. I liked to play in different bands the different styles and to mix it all up in my own band, with acoustic and electric. Every instrument gave me other world of possibilities to express myself.
Since learning my first chords on the guitar, I was starting writing songs. The lyrics were quiet always in english. I was grown bilingual, italian and swiss german. So it was a natural process to start writing and singing in italian to be able to express better deeper feelings and to play around with words and meanings. I'm sure to have found my musical destiny. Were this travel will go I don't know but I will follow to play only my own songs. Songs with themes that are touching me. In the styles of rock and pop with different influences.
Composing has become something like a meditation, writing lyrics kind of overcoming a personal situation.
The possibility to work with world class musicians like Alfredo Golino and Paolo Costa was an incredible experience and motivation. Sogno reale – a dream come true, the title of the actual album.
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Hey, das lied isch super. ich lose dini musik immer gärn.
ich wünsch dir alles liebi und wiiter hi viil erfolg.
liebi grüess
radka
Hey ciao Toni,
gratuliere zom "Hot Today" ;-)
mer gsehnd eus jo am fritig..
fab
ciao toni se voi io sto organizando un concerto per te in ticino ora abbiamo rifatto gli hardway e se ci fai fare da spalla in svizzera interna allora vedo di trovare un posto bello in ticino , se voi ti facciamo da spalla anche in ticino saluti tommy
hallo toni and band
tolles konzert in magden!
ich hoffe die fotos haben euch gefallen!?
grüsse
swisswatcher.ch
andreas
Ciao Toni complimenti per i pezzi !!!
Tra un po vediamo di fare un concerto insieme in Ticino! a presto..
Hei, dass si mega coole Lieder. Super!!!!
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO! TI aspetto in Ticino! Quando vieni da noi???
sei grande sempre il migliore
ja toni du bist der beste ein super gitarrist und songwriter und sänger
wow grande grande se voi ti faccio fare qualche concerto qui in ticino
Echt eine gelunge CD. Sehr schöne Songs.