Alessandro Garofalo

Alessandro ‘Maestro’ Garofalo was born in Sicily and started to learn how to play guitar at the age of 10, to move on to piano at a later stage. At the age of 18 he began to play piano with local jazz bands until he moved to Bologna in the 1980s. There he approached reggae and met Sud Sound System, the Italian reggae band, with whom he started a collaboration that's still going on today. In the meantime he got to work with artists like Parto Delle Nuvole Pesanti, Teresa De Sio and Edoardo Bennato. In the early 1990s 'Maestro' met Ohm Guru and started to collaborate with IRMA Records. As composer, keyboard player and arranger he has worked on albums by DJ Rodriguez, Ohm Guru, Pastaboys, Black Mighty Orchestra, LTJ Xperience, Ninfa, plus an array of singles by various IRMA artists.