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Artist
Roberto Ciotti
12+ albums
bluesitalianbluesrockContemporary Bluesunder 2000 listeners
about
Born in Rome in 1953, Roberto started to play the guitar at the age of 12 devoting himself immediately to Delta Blues and Electric Rock-Blues. 1970- He worked with the Jazz - Rock band "Blue Morning" together with tenor saxophonist Maurizio Giammarco. After this experience he continued as a session man, working with top Italian artist such as Francesco De Gregori and Edoardo Bennato. He was also Bennato's live band leader until 1977. 1972 - He started to study the Dobro guitar. As a solo artist Roberto Ciotti and his band partecipated in all main blues festivals in Italy (Pistoia 1985) and in Europe (Berlin, Lucerne, Hamburg, Montreux), and also played with Brian Auger, Jerry Ricks, Louisiana Red, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Willie Littlefield. 1980 - He opened the italian concerts of Bob Marley at S.Siro Stadium in Milan and at Turin Stadium. 1983/1984 - Ciotti collaborated with Ginger Baker as lead guitarist of his band touring Italy and U.S.A. 1989 - Roberto and his band successfully toured U.S.S.R. Roberto Ciotti has appeared many times on main italian T.V. programmes and his video are regularly broadcasted by italian music T.V (D.O.C.) network Videomusic, receiving medium and high rotation.He was awarded the "Giovani & Giovani-Roccella Jonica" and the "Platea Oro" prizes for the Soundtrack to the film "Marrakech Express" directed by Gabriele Salvatores (winner of an Oscar Award in 1992 for the best foreign film). 1990 - The soundtrack of the movie "Turnè", irected by Gab
