STEFANO ORETO

 

Stefano Oreto studied piano very young with the jazz piano player Patrizia Scascitelli. At the age of 13, he discovered the pop music, fell in love with the Beatles and decided to learn to play guitar. With this new love in his heart, he began to write songs and he never stopped. He later formed a band called

The Shaking Shades, in which he was playing guitar and keybords together with a drummer, Alessandro and a bass player, Francesco.

They decided to move to England and here they met Ian Dury and Chaz Jankle of The Blockheads. They lived for a short time in Chaz's flat in Holland Park, spending a long time with him. This has been a very important step in Stefano's life as musician.

During these years, he also had another passion: the cinema. In 1987, when the band split, he came back to Italy and began to work in the cinema industry as a camera assistant and as a focus puller. He did this job in a couple of movies, but he finally decided to be a director beginning to work as an assistant director in different movies.

He became a member of the Screenwriting laboratory of Leo Benvenuti and, at the same time, he signed a contract as a documentary director for "Submerged Rock", winning the Government Award.

From 1989 to 1991, he directed the following documentaries: "Anglomania " (filmed in London), "A Blank Wall "and "The Carousel", all winning the Government Awards.

He successively met the Maestro Valentino Miserachs and, remembering his greatest passion for music, he began to sing as bass baritone in the Venerabile Cappella Musicaleof Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, where he has been singing for a very long time.

In 1992, he directed his first important movie "That Darkness Without Silence", which, in addition to the governmental award of the Ministry of tourism and entertainment, granted him some critical success.

The following year, he directed the short film "One Last Day", which brought him under the attention of the critics.

At the same time, he followed the shooting of several feature films as an assistant director and as a production inspector. He also did some film cutting in several documentaries forCorona Cinematografica and composed music for documentaries for Gagliardo Editionsand Ferzago Cinematografica.

During this time, he has always been writing songs, recording them without any plan about them.

In 2004, he moved permanently to London. In 2005, he founded art & Art, an Italian art gallery in London. He is himself a painter and he has been selling plenty of art works around the world.

Notwithstanding this, writing songs has always been his first aim. When in 2014 he felt a little bit tired of playing his songs live in London just for the fun, he met Amore Psiche. This meeting has been very important for them both, as they began to write songs together and founded their duo The Big Boh. They released their first EP 'Never mind the (f) mainstream' in July 2015 and they are currently recording their first album, which will soon be released.

And then ....What is gonna happen...???