Fabrizio"Bicio"(pronounce:bee-chow)Leo, was born in Abbiategrasso, about 20km south of Milan, Italy on 7/28/1971. He began playing guitar by himself at sixteen, focusing his passion and practicing on rock/fusion genre, inspired by didactic videos from such amazing players like Greg Howe, Brett Garsed, Frank Gambale just to name a few.
After several collaborations as sideman and touring with highly representative italian pop/rock artists, in the year 2006, Bicio became the first italian guitarist ever produced by Shrapnel Records's boss Mike Varney, worldwide famous to started 20 years ago, the shred generation fire, producing guitar Gods like: Greg Howe, Vinnie Moore, Tony Mac Alpine, Joey Tafolla, Richie Kotzen and much more.The cd, titled "Cutaway" raised an authentic"tsunami" of positive responses from specialized international and italian press and fans from the five continents, that sent and still are sending diary e mails to congratulate the man himself for his amazing guitar playing.
I was born in Abbiategrasso, a little town near Milan, the 28th july 1971.
In 1987, at the age of sixteen, I started to play the guitar as a self-tought, then I became a specialist through the video lessons of Greg Howe, Joey Tafolla, Brett Garsed, Vinnie Moore and many others
Since 1986 until now, I worked in studios and on stage with a lot of Italian artists: Renato Zero, Eros Ramazzotti, Fiorella Mannoia, Ron, Biagio Antonacci, Umberto Tozzi, Tazenda, Giorgia, Loredana Bertè, Gianluca Grignani, Lucio Dalla, Luca Carboni, Mango, Simone, Luca Dirisio, DJ Francesco, Drupi, Niccolò Agliardi, Pago, Bobby Solo, Teste Sciroppate, and more.
I tought in some schools and academies for a while, now I give private rock and fusion guitar lessons.
On 25th April will be released my first record and Citriniti's records (featuring me) both produced by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records!!
FABRIZIO LEO - Cutaway
(Shrapnel Records)
(2006)
CITRINITI feat.
Fabrizio Leo
Between The Music And
Latitude
(2006)
CITRINITI
feat. Fabrizio Leo
(2008)
