Mario Ansaldo

In the organizer's words:

With his guitar and his sometimes warm and intimate, sometimes rough and aggressive voice, Mario takes the audience on a journey in his time machine through the music of the last century.

Mario Ansaldo, Sicilian musician and singer, has been commuting between Sicily and Germany for several years. He studied classical guitar and clarinet, but has always preferred the electric guitar.
He has played many musical genres, from pop/rock to renaissance music, from country to swing, both live and in his recording studio "Doctor Sound's". This has allowed him to collaborate with artists of different origins and also with some of the most famous Italian musicians, including:
- Ricky Portera (guitarist for: Lucio Dalla, Stadio, Vasco Rossi, Paola Turci).
- Claudio "Gallo" Golinelli (bassist for: Vasco Rossi, Gianna Nannini, Adriano Celentano).
- Egidio La Gioia, co-protagonist in the official Italian versions of the musicals "Jesus Christ Superstar", the only version authorized in Italy by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber, "Tommy", "Evita".
- Christian, the singer of the Italian hits "Cara", "Daniela".
In recent years, he has almost completely abandoned the electric guitar and devoted himself more to the acoustic guitar. His repertoire includes Italian and international hits of country/blues/swing/pop/rock music which Mario plays with the techniques of strumming and fingerpicking.
He is the author of the following pieces of music, among others:
- "Booganga": for the information DVD of the ERSU (Regional Body for the Right to University Education of Messina). Of which 15,000 copies were distributed.
- "Arabella": background music for a commercial that was shown during the entire duration of EXPO 2015 in Milan
- "La legge è uguale per tutti (ma non siamo tutti uguali)". Co-producer of the song and the video, both interpreted by the well-known comedian Rocco Barbaro.
In the 1980s, he worked as a sound engineer and musician at the Analogy recording studio in Messina. This is where one of the first records with the song "Lady Blue" was made. Mario took care of the co-arrangement and programming of the electric drums. He also played the alto saxophone.
This song was later adopted as the theme song for the South American telenovela "Amor Gitano".

Organizer: SaBri GmbH