ANDREA RAGUSA
MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, SOUND DESIGNER

ANDREA RAGUSA WAS BORN IN TODI (PERUGIA) ON AUGUST, 2ND 1985; AS EARLY AS 1998 HE MOVED TO CATANIA, SICILY, WHICH WAS HIS FATHER’S HOMETOWN. HE LIVED THERE UNTIL 2005 (EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS SPENT IN PARMA), AND TOOK A DIPLOMA IN “ADVERTISING GRAPHICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY” AT ART STATE HIGH SCHOOL THERE. BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT PASSION FOR MUSIC, HE STARTED PLAYING DRUMS AT 11. AFTER A FEW YEARS PRACTISING DRUMMING, AND AFTER TAKING HIS DIPLOMA, HE ATTENDED A THREE-YEAR COURSE IN “SOUND DESIGN” AT IED (MILAN). IT WAS THEN HE STARTED PLAYING KEYBOARDS, SYNTHS AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN GENERAL, ALL OF WHICH NECESSARY TO COMPOSING AND PRODUCING ADVERT JINGLES AND OTHER MEDIA PRODUCTS. TODAY HE COMPOSES AND WRITES MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS FOR COMMERCIALS, CARTOONS AND SHORT FILMS. HE IS ALSO A TEACHER OF SOUND DESIGN AT THE IPSIA RIPAMONTI HIGH SCHOOL (COMO) AND IED (MILAN). IN HIS FREE TIME HE IS GIVEN TO MUSIC, NAMELY TO A POST-ROCK BAND PROJECT CALLED “EDGAR”. WITH MARCO MONTI HE FOUNDED THE BAND "MOTHELL."

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