gianluigi secchi
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Gianluigi Secchi is a Guitarist and Composer from Sardinia, Italy, based in London with almost 20 years of live playing all over the world. His solo show is a mix of meaningful arrangements and original compositions. A lot of real stories that became music. With his Nylon Sound, some electronic effects and a loop pedal he tells about his travels, loves, games, effort of his life.
Gianluigi has been playing the guitar since he was 15 years old , when his father gave him his first guitar. His studies began in 2009 learning the basics of the american fingerpicking and the classic arpeggios. In 2010 he moved to Milan to study jazz at the Accademia Del Suono, continuing in 2011-2012 in the "Luigi Canepa Conservatory" of Sassari and between 2013-2014 studying modern guitar in "Birdland".
In his career he had the opportunity to perform with many bands in different styles such as songwriting, funk, fusion, bossa,
r & b, pop, reggae, afro, etc. After a while he managed how to syntethize all the tecniques together creating his own style mixing his fingerstyle expression with his flatpicking solo improvisation that will became a fingerpicking improvisation.
In his first album Adventure in D all the solos are played with a pick. Since October 2017 he lives in London where he regularly performs as a soloist and session player. He has performed in venues such as Crazy Coqs, 1901 Arts clubs, Moustache bar, George Chiswick, Embassy of Lebanon, The Ned, etc.
In 2018 He works for P&O Cruise Ship in Australia and Pacific Ocean in a duo band (singer-guitarist) playing pop and jazz and he felt in love with this type of life that made him a traveler musician. In December 2018 he back in London and started to teach modern guitar and fingerpicking as a privatist proposing his own method and later he decided to use this experimental method for children aged 3 to 8 years in a Montessori School and in a Hackney private school in London.
This method helps the children to choose their own instrument and to develop the psychomotor skills listening to music, singing, dancing and drawing.
In July 2019 he was selected among the 2 direct finalists for the "Emerging Guitarist 2019" competition launched by ADGPA in Conegliano, while in September he was chosen by the Armadillo Club among the 4 finalists for the "New Sound Of Acoustic Music" in Cremona.
In 2020 finally his first album of soundtracks "Adventure in D" is out. 10 years of songs, where tradition meet the modernity , in a mix of different sounds from classical to ethnic music, from swing to bossa, from r & b to world music. From 2021 till 2024 Gianluigi decided to take a little break from London and restarted his life of traveler on the cruise.
He wanted to discover new places and the music from those places, so heaccepted various contracts in the Caribbean and Mediterranean sea, Alaska, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Polinesia, etc, performing for traveler people and meeting musician from everywhere.
Other meaningful travels were Morocco and Turquey, choosed for a music journey. In 2022 electronic and classical are mixed in a new project inspired by the architectures of London. The curiosity of working in something different was released in some particular compositions where the nylon is melted in a modern beats. Some of his original acoustic compositions were used on TV under the Trichorus Label to synchronize the tv program Sardegna Verde on Videolina and Eccellenze Italiane on Rai 3, others were used in Bahamas.
In future Gianluigi would like to come back to Sardinia to reconnect with his Land ...