Davide Rossi
Davide Rossi (born 7 August 1970, in Turin, Italy) is a violinist, string arranger, composer, conductor and a record producer, perhaps best known for having been the violinist, guitar and keytar-player for the British electronic music duo Goldfrapp from 2000 until 2013, and for his large contribution of electric violin parts and for all the string arrangements on all Coldplay's albums since Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, and The Verve's album Forth.
Biography
Early career – Italy
Rossi began playing music at the age of four and, encouraged by his mother, started to study violin at the age of ten. He entered the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Torino in 1981 and began studying under the guidance of Maestro Ivan Krivensky, who remains his violin teacher to this day. Rossi received his Diploma in 1992 at the homonymous school in Milan.
Alongside formal classical studies he started to work with bands at the age of fifteen, mainly in the Turin area. After his Diploma in 1992 he joined Mau Mau full-time; a folk-rock band from Turin with whom he recorded many albums and toured most of Europe and the Middle-East. Other Italian bands that featured his work are Casino Royale, Afterhours, La Crus,Cristina Donà,Bluvertigo and the singer songwriter Vinicio Capossela.
Podcasts:
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by Lagwagon
Dividers
by: LagwagonAll the mirrors scream
As they describe your dreams
All that they deride
Until you have no allies
They depict a world where we aren't safe
Without hate
An angry mob of one
Author of the unstoppable will
United we must kill
Here comes the facade
They will inflate your god
By default accomplice to their war
But I know where I stand
Born into the geographic call
But I won't elect to let my mind fall