Luca Turilli was born on 5 March 1972 and is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist constantly engaged in various musical projects.
11 Facts About Luca Turilli
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Luca Turilli is one of the founders of the symphonic power metal band Rhapsody, later called Rhapsody of Fire.
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Luca Turilli's father was a cello player who died when Turilli was only two years old.
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Luca Turilli inherited his passion for classical music and at 16 years old he started playing guitar.
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In 1993, Luca Turilli founded the band Thundercross, which was renamed Rhapsody after releasing the first demo, and renamed to Rhapsody of Fire for trademark reasons in 2006.
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Alex agreed to go on as Rhapsody of Fire, while Turilli decided to move on as Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, adding his name on top of the logo because of trademark reasons and old legal settlements.
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In early 2020, Luca Turilli stated in an interview with Steinberg that he feels the constant need to evolve and explore the world of music by creating new projects, finding new artistic goals and stimulations.
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Early in his career Luca Turilli was influenced by guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Marty Friedman and especially Jason Becker, still considered by him today as the greatest guitarist ever.
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Luca Turilli's lead playing often includes extensive use of sweep picked arpeggios, tremolo picking, classically influenced phrases, and scales such as aeolian, harmonic minor, phrygian, locrian, and melodic minor.
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Luca Turilli is using one main computer based on an Intel Xeon double processor and two additional "slave" PCs for a total of 256 GB of RAM.
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Luca Turilli has four of them being part of the first series and three of them being part of the new "Neoclassical revelation 2.0" Series.