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Luca Francioso was born in Reggio Calabria (in South Italy) on 19 May,1976. He began studying classic guitar in 1987 with Giuseppe Alati and he approached the fingerstyle tecnique in 1996 improving it in 1997 with Franco Morone, a guitar player. He started writing his first stories in 1991.

His growing need to communicate has always pushed Luca on different expressive ways. All these ways are addressed to the most immediate emotional involvement, altough music remains the path he beats more comfortably. His love for writing and telling stories, anyway, accompanies his carrier and sometimes comes to touch and cross the musical layout. His compositions for acoustic guitar always search for simplicity and melody strength, but they also face more refined solutions and genre conbination, as it is for his novels.
He loves telling stories and telling his own story through art.

«I don't think I am a fingerstyle guitar player. No, I'm not. I think I'm just a guitar player. The guitar is an instrument for me: it is an instrument to communicate and share what I feel. In my works you seldom find only the guitar: it is the main voice of the stories I tell but it is always accompanied by other instruments discreetly and softly. You can better understand my way of playing and my style from this point of view. The pure technique is not the only message, but what my hand can do on the keyboard is always at melody and emotion's disposal (or at least that's what I'm trying to do). That's why I don’t consider myself a great performer. I feel myself more like a story-teller (I sometimes use the pen to write my stories as well). Of course I think that technique helps me to find more musical languages, but it doesn't run out of my hands, even if I admit that I love to experiment new ways of playing. I've got a quite classical pitch when I play, a very Italian taste in the melodies and a wide curiosity in listening all kind of music and in all what can inspire me». (L. F.)

(English web translated by Ester Rampazzo)