Gianni Cicogna

Gianni Cicogna (born October 18, 1969) is an Italian bass guitar player.
Biography
He began studying and playing the electric bass guitar already at a very young age, followed by seminars and refresher courses to learn and improve his knowledge of the modern techniques of the bass guitar, like slap and tapping, various styles of accompaniment, solos and improvisation.
He completed hundreds of concerts and continuous and intermittent collaborations with national and international artists, for example: band member for Lucio Fabbri for the popular television program , Noémi, Ambra Marie, Marco Mengoni, Matteo Becucci, Morgan, Shell Shapiro, Garbo, Ricky Portera, Maurizio Solieri, Kiko Loureiro (Guitar player of Angra), Exilia, Gabriele Fersini (Guitar player of Laura Pausini and Biagio Antonacci) and many more.
Since almost ten years he writes articles and transcripts for the famous magazine "Guitar Club". He works as a bass guitar teacher in different Music Schools in Northern Italy. In the past he also worked as a demonstrator for Ibanez Basses and Warwick, at present for endorsers Gallien Krueger amps and Michael Tobias Design (MTD) basses.
In 2009 he released his first record for the label Raitrade/Videoradio with his project "Groovydo" , a collaboration with longtime partner and friend Sergio Pescara, a well known Italian drummer, with whom he shares a long series of collaborations and concert promotions. At the moment the Duo is engaged in the processing of their second album, which is expected to be released later in 2012. They are also preparing for the upcoming Promotion Tour of the new album of Pino Scotto, a well known Italian Hard Rock singer.
Discography
Albums
with JoJo Band
* Voci (1994) (CGD)
with Grooovydo
* Groovydo (2009) (Videoradio)

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