Berardino Ciriello

I was born on 12 May 1951 in a little town in South Italy, I lived from 1964 to 2017 in Switzerland and now I am based in Italy. After over 50 years playing cover music with sundry bands in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, during the covid-lockdown in 2020, at the age of 69, I discovered my true passion: song writing and cover songs recording. So I bought a second-hand iMac and learned to use the software provided by this computer (Garage Band and iMovie) in about 1 month. On 1st April 2020 I published my first video on YouTube singing along with my guitar (“A wonderful world”by Zucchero). After learning multitrack recording (in remote collaboration with other musicians outside from Italy) on June 2020 I realised the first video with this technique (A whiter shade of Pale) with the piano player Francesco De Gaetano (Switzerland). Later I made recordings "staying at home" with musicians in Germany, North Ireland, England and Netherlands. At the same time I published sundry videos playing alone. My first own composition was released in August 2020 and until toda...