Pupazzo pazzo

About Pupazzo pazzo

Gianluca Rizzo's or better, my career in music started in the mid 80’s when I began to take lessons for tenor sax from a private teacher and eventually joined the band he conducted.

In those years I enjoyed touring in the summertime all over the region until up to the beginning of the 90’s, at which time i left the band due to some family problems.

A few years later when problems could have been seen as a thing of past, even thought they were not, I restarted playing because I love music and I thought I should carry on.

So I began learning guitar, mainly self taught but I had some help from friends like Claudio Perri and Vincenzo Corvello to kick off, to whom i am really greatful. From that point I started writing songs, I had done by the summer of 1994 an all demo of my first cd,11 songs, which due to my military service was put aside.
But in the Summer of 1995 I restarted working on it but I was not happy with the lyrics. So i asked my good friend Vincenzo Corvello for help. He is a fantastic lyricist, so while sipping a bottle of white Martini we conceived the idea with would then be the theme of that cd and we started writing the new lyrics.

After my first cd was done I started playing with a few guys that were usual to come and spend the summer in my town and when they left I took the drums kit and I started to learn them and from there I went back to playing sax as well, and joined a local band with which I played in the summer 1998.

Then in that winter i built my little home studio in the loft and I started my second project which I wrote entirely by myself and I started playing covers with a few friends.. during that time we were going around with the gears in the car and where there was a place we would set up and play. That time it was a good fun.

Unfortunately, even though I was trying hard to form a band, I was so unlucky in that I couldn’t find the right people to play my own music. Vincenzo at the time wasn't even around, therefore, in 1999 I once again quit, this time was my own choise,and I decided to take a long break during which I came to the UK to learn English.
Here I completed my third cd …. and since then I have been doing quite a few radios interview and some live with diffent bands......and in the meatime I have completed an instrumental project which is only on you tube at the moment.
I am also writing consequently another instrumental project and another rock album
Hope you enjoy my sound