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Fabio Carraffa
Guitarist
Fabio Carraffa is a Blues/Rock/Metal guitarist with extensive experience both live and in the studio.
He started playing electric guitar at the age of 13, forming the first bands with schoolmates in middle schools and his professional career began at age of 20 seeing him collaborate with many Italian artists (Zucchero Fornaciari, Andrea Mingardi, Mario Venuti, Vanadium/Pino Scotto, Maurizio Vandelli, Rita Pavone, Dody Battaglia, Fio Zanotti, Marco Rancati, Etc.) and with several international artists (Zakk Wylde, Paul Gilbert, George Lynch and Steve Vai) participating in many tours and TV shows in Italy and abroad.
He carried on his studies through learning Spanish Flamenco guitar with Franco Brambati at NAMM music School Milan, Italy. He has worked for more than 15 years in national (Disma, MIS, Meet Show, Second Hand etc.) and international (Frankfurt Musikmesse, NAMM Show) music fairs as a demonstrative for the brands: Viper Guitars, Roland, Eko, Master Music, Washburn Guitars, Randall Amps, Marshall Amps, Rocktron and many more. He is currently sponsored by VIPER GUITARS and LABELLA strings.
Fabio has been teaching electric guitar for over 25 years (Blues, Rock & Metal genres), he has taught in numerous schools in North Italy among which the Lizard Music Academy, Accademia di Musica Moderna, Massive Arts Music School, Yamaha Music School, MoonHouse Music School.
Fabio has written several guitar books published by Amazon such as: ROCK GUITAR UNIVERSE, ROCK GUITAR MODES, PERFECT GUITAR CONTROL, READY to ROCK! Healso collaborated as a producer for the Carisch Spa publishing house on the entire ULTIMATE MINUS ONE series.
Fabio is not only a guitarist but also a composer and producer. In recent years he has played in the United States in California, Nevada and Colorado playing his own instrumental pieces and gaining great consensus from the American public. In 2022 he started recording and producing the album THE CIRCLE with his new band Monkey Riot. He is just back from the USA where he returned to promote the band’s album with Kelly.
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