He was the founder of Detonazione (one of the most influential Italian post-punk bands of the 80s),[1] author of contemporary jazz albums and collaborator as a sideman for important artists.
[4][5] With Detonazione he participates in the first edition of the Biennial of Young Artists of the Mediterranean[6] organized in Barcelona in 1984 to inaugurate a season of cultural rebirth and opening towards the future exactly ten years after the end of Francoism.
[8] Still with Alice, he collaborates on the realization of the first Devogue album with Gavin Harrison, Stefano Battaglia and other musicians of different musical backgrounds.
[12] In 1996 he won the competition organized by ISMEZ (National Institute for Musical Development in the South) for the creation of the "Is Ensamble" orchestra conducted by Paolo Damiani.
[14] In 2016 he was invited together with the French Canadian saxophonist Guy-Frank Pellerin (student and then teacher of the Institute for Art, Culture and Perception founded in Paris by Alan Silva)[15] to perform as a duo at the 30th edition of the Barga Jazz Festival.