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Daniele was born in Sarzana (SP) - Italy, the 22 September 1980. He approaches music when he was 7 years old like it was a game and he immediately fell in love with it. His first instrument was guitar following private lessons with the M° Dino Termine of Carrara (MS) - Italy until the age of 14. In those years he took part to an ambitious and difficult project: the "Orchestra of the Youth", an ensemble of 23 elements formed by young musicians of age between 10 and 18 years guided by M° Dino Termine himself and proposing a varied repertory from the classics swing, Neapolitan traditional songs and some rock `n roll standards of the sixties.
In 1994 its attention catched barely exclusively by rhythm, and really soon it becomes his first interest, until when in 1994, in the middle of the grunge era, astonished by the song “Black Hole Sun" contained in the album Superunknown of Soundgarden comes literally where the drumming of Matt Cameron stupefied him because of its essentiality and great technical capacity at the same time. From the that moment Daniele dedicates himself exclusively into drums at first like self-taught and then followed from some teachers of the La Spezia and Massa Carrara area.
When he was 18 years he decided to study the instrument seriously than he moved to Milan in order to study with M° Walter Calloni, a workshop that lasted approximately a year, followed by some theory studies and degrees with M° Nicoletta Caselli. In the meantime, guided by the enormous impulse to communicate through the rythmic language, he decided to form some band to gain experience above all in the live clubs.

At the age of 19 , he started working as a session player in many studios in the whole country, an unforgettable experience, really formative that helped him to reach a great control of his instrument.
In 2000 he decided to study with M° Luca Captani with whom carried out an interesting rhythmic research for approximately one year, in the meantime he continued to work a a session drummer and performing live in the club.

Conscious of the problems related to the recording of drums, he developed interest towards sound engineering. Such passion gave its fruits with the construction of "Insider Studio", his personal recording studio where actually he carries out his main activity thanks to the method of the e-Session.

In 2002 he is one of the founders of the band OUTSIDER.

"Delirium" - OUTSIDER's videoclip

For any further information regarding OUTSIDER, check out...

www.outsidertheband.com

www.myspace.com/outsidertheband

Daniele joined many master classes of drummers and percussionists such as: Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta, Trilok Gurtu, Tommy Igoe, Gary Novak, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Gregg Bissonette, Dennis Chambers, Dave Weckl and Clyde Stubblefield.

He’s endorser for the italian handcraft laboratory Diddle Drums. From the didactic point of view currently Daniele is deepening the instrument studying privately with 1st italian session drummer, the M° Lele Melotti.