Luigi Maione

Luigi Maione is a guitarist, composer and poet, winner of the C. Capodieci Poetry Prize and of an Honourable Mention at the Memorial Sermoneta.

Over the course of his career he has worked in the popular-music and advertising circuit and has appeared as a singer-songwriter and guitarist on television programmes for networks such as RAI, Mediaset, Telemontecarlo, Videomusic and Telelombardia.

He studied harmony under Maestro Daccò and guitar with Giorgio Cocilovo. He has explored different musical contexts, playing in Italy and abroad with his band Partenope Latina and with the salsa group Los Gemala.

Among his many collaborations, those that stand out include soundtrack work with Giovanni Venosta for Silvio Soldini’s films Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) and Agata e la Tempesta (Agata and the Storm), the project with Giovanni Nuti and Lucia Bosè dedicated to Alda Merini, work with the dancer Kesia Elwin in the show Harem, and recordings with the Mamud Band, with the saxophonist Massimo Cavallaro and with Eyal Lerner and the Arab-Israeli ensemble NUYALLA in concerts for peace.

As a singer-songwriter of the Club Tenco he has released several solo albums of original songs, including Assassini si nasce in 2017, Parola di Franz! in 2019 and Grancirco in 2022.

He is also the author of literary works, including the short-story collection Il diario di Mister Ics e altri racconti (“The Diary of Mister X and Other Stories”) and the poetry collection Macerie Liriche (“Lyrical Rubble”).