ROBERTO VILLA​

founder, producer, musician, phonographic production manager, sound engineer

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Born in 1982, he approaches music from a very young age by studying piano and clarinet. He starts playing the electric bass in 1998; passionate about double bass, in addition to undertaking a course of classical studies he studied with Massimo Moriconi, and subsequently graduated, under the guidance of Maestro Paolo Ghetti in jazz composition and improvisation at the "GB Martini" conservatory in Bologna.
Together with Stefano Cantarelli, he founded the nowave blues duo -JD Hangover- and in 2016 under the name -Villa- he began working on original instrumentals, releasing three 7-inch singles.

Over the years he has the opportunity to play with: Satellite Inn, The Gang, Ronin, Giacomo Toni, Don Antonio, Eugenio Finardi, Stiv Cantarelli and the Silent Strangers, Santobarbaro, SuperMarket, Del Barrio, Khorakhanè, Gattamolesta, Dogs, Eusebio Martinelli & The Gipsy Abarth Orkestar, Massimo Giovanardi Trio, Macola and Vibronda, Granturismo, Giancarlo Giannini Quartet, Vince Vallicelli, Carlo Atti, Carlo Maver, Massimo Tagliata, Teo Ciavarella, Flavio Boltro, Pippo Guarnera, Luca Giordano, Stella Burns, Massimo Valentini, Nicola Peruch, Carlo Borsari, Davide Brillante, Max Dall'Omo, Nico Menci, Alessandro Altarocca, Joseph Martone, Michele Bonivento, Emiliano Pintori, Giovanni D'Angelo, Marco Frattini, Gianluca Nanni, Gionata Costa, Andrea Costa, Hilario Baggini, Vince Vallicelli , Gaspare Pasini, Stefano De Rosa, Sebastiano Ragusa, Giovanni Belli, Davide Cassandro, Federico Cassandro, Fabrizio Mandolini, Valentino Bianchi, Federico Tassani, Massimo Semprini, Stefano Serafini, Marco Vienna, Lello Becchimanzi, Emma Morton, Pete O 'Dublo, Alejandro Escovedo, Ian Svenonius, Valery Haumont, Washboard Chaz, Katherine Davis, Kenn Bailey etc.
Currently he plays with -Ronin-, the historical band of Bruno Dorella, with -The Gang-,  the band of the Severini brothers, with Don Antonio and Giacomo Toni.