1. Pino Presti is a 5th-dan black belt in Shotokan Karate.
14 Facts About Pino Presti
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Pino Presti started as a bass guitar player, and then gradually began as an arranger, composer, orchestra conductor, and producer.
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Son of an accomplished violinist, Arturo Prestipino Giarritta, Presti began studying piano and music theory at the age of six.
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Pino Presti recorded hundreds of songs with major Italian artists such as Mina, Giorgio Gaber, Ornella Vanoni, Gino Paoli, Bruno Lauzi, Fabrizio De Andre, Sergio Endrigo, Mia Martini, Franco Battiato, Adriano Celentano, Milva, Pino Donaggio, Gigliola Cinquetti, Caterina Caselli, Bobby Solo, Fausto Leali, Michele, Ivan Graziani, Loredana Berte and many others.
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Pino Presti backed her as a singer, as in "Flamingo" and other tracks.
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Pino Presti is listed under his real name, Giuseppe Prestipino, on the record Libertango with Astor Piazzolla and in Summit by Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan.
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Pino Presti is listed under the name Giuseppe "Pino" Prestipino Giarritta on the records La Onda Maxima and Onda Nueva Instrumental by the Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger Aldemaro Romero.
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Besides composing music for TV series since the 1980s, Pino Presti has been creating and producing albums under various pseudonyms for renowned labels such as Polydor, Baby Records, Barclay, Edizioni Curci, Durium, Dischi Ricordi, Joker, as well as independent ones: Emergency Records, Soul Xpression, Level One, Self.
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In 2013 Pino Presti co-produced the tribute album Shirley Bunnie Foy, consisting of seventeen tracks performed by jazz vocalist Shirley Bunnie Foy in her 60 years career.
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In 2014 Pino Presti composed, co-produced and released, under the pseudonym Mad of Jazz, the album Deep Colors, with the collaboration of keyboardists, synth programmers and composers Claudio and Andrea Calzolari.
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On February 6,2025, the compilation Soul Touches, produced by Pino Presti and distributed by Planet Distribution, is released and promoted in major digital stores.
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Pino Presti trained in Shotokan karate and Goshindo under master Hiroshi Shirai from 1967 to 1985.
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Pino Presti has trained on several occasions under other Japanese masters such as Taiji Kase, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Keinosuke Enoeda, Takeshi Naito, Hideo Ochi.
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Pino Presti holds a 5th degree black belt obtained in Rome, in 1987.