My story
Public addresses and speaches usually starts with a standard frame: “...will cut it short...”. By my side, I’ll break that rule, since what I built in the last 25 years of sacrifices would not be fair to setback with just few words!
I was born in Forlì, june 10th, 1962 (great time for wine and guitars) from a worker class family. My dad had a bike repair shop, and today is still able to make any kind of engine-fitted craft to work perfectly. Mum ran the house as any old Romagna woman did: she is talented about how to keep family’s armony and economy. I also have an older brother named Ivan, great travelling man, that I love much and that I use to call simply "Bro".
I was a pretty good student and I completed my school duties with great profit. Always a man of sport, I was just 6 years old when I first met a soccer team. When I was 12 due to a bad dispute with the coach, I switched to basket. Despite my shortness compared to the average height of my mates, I was able to play for the glorious PGS Fulgor Forlì and reach the national third series, along with my long-time best friend Luca Chiadini.
I was always a caring guy: when I had to decide my career, right after tha secondary school, I opted to become a professional health assistant and I took a double year’s school to got the points to join a master degree stage. But I did not want to weight to much on my parent’s shoulder so as many of my friends in my 15 I started to work as a waiter in the summer season. I liked that job so much that I changed my mind about my future: I kept my studies on shorthand-typing school that, after personal pleasure, had a great prospective as for job.
It was right during that times that I started to play my brother’s records Pink Floyd, Who, Hendrix, Deep Purple, Yes, Queen ecc., as well as self-teaching guitar and drums with great passion and care! My first band was called “Magic Image” and featured me, Bro, Loris Giovannetti (basket coach) and Gabriele Foschi. Those classic rock tracks were our mayor numbers on stage: poor tech gear, but intense feeling.
Those were the times I divided myself between school, music, sport: I eventually teached basket to the kids. At night I worked as a waiter in a private club in Forlì, to keep my economic supply. Sundays and public holidays gave me the chances to work in restaurants, so that I managed to spare money for more musical instruments!
Got my degree in hotel’s managing, I got drafted for the Army service. I chose penitentiary marshalls, to be usefull to the society and achieve more skills. When I got discharged, I started a career as Maitre in the biggest and most beautiful hotel’s chains all over Europe: I used to do this in winter season, while in the summer I worked the same job in Milano Marittima, nice location on the italian adriatic shore. I proudly managed some of the most famous italian restaurants and hotels, such “La Frasca” belonged by my dear friend Gianfranco Bolognesi and the “Baglioni” chain Hotel in Bologna, Florence and Parma, whose I really recall with great intensity since I got the chance to meet some very special people there, to mention the few: Bob Dylan, U2, Sting, Pope Giovanni Paolo II, Senna , Prost, Alberto Tomba, Michel Schumacher, Platini, Franco Baresi, Van Basten, Maradona, Alberto Sordi, Ornella Muti and many others.
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