Stefano Tucci’s Musical Journey
Stefano Tucci (May 31, 1983) is an Italian musician, producer and songwriter.
Stefano Tucci’s musical style spans breakbeat, trip hop, techno house, deep house, ambient house, rock, chill out, lounge, electro-pop and dark-pop.
In 1998, Stefano formed the metal cover band Hell Chest, performing in iconic rock and metal bars in Napoli. The bassist of the band was Lucio Grilli, who then became a member of Soul Secret and Mind Key. Composer and pianist Alessandro Laraspata was in that band on rhythm guitar. They played in the most iconic rock and metal scenes of the 90’s in Naples: Napul@, Jail, Southern Bull.
In Bologna, he transitioned to electronic music and he co-founded the DJ duo Stepstoofar, signing with BRM Electro producing singles like “Dear Bro” and “Soul & Music.” They appeared on the music YouTube channel “Urban Music Bank” in 2015.
Stefano’s solo career took off in 2013 with the release of “Collateral Thinking” under Smoothnotes Publishing and later Machiavelli Records. He then published the chill out album “Flows” and the pop album “A fine day to be born”.
In 2018 he published “9-Heartbit”, moving toward a more electronic sound.
In 2019 he published the result of the collaboration with singer Kristiana met in Paris some years before, “Here, nowhere”.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stefano collaborated with French songwriter Alexia Charoud and arranged songs for the French artist MALE, contributing to the trip hop single “The Lonely and the Careless” and co-producing the electro-pop EP “Mutations” and the album “Eclore”.
His musical evolution led to collaborations with artists like the Italian percussionist Marco Vittoria and ventures such as “Mast.” The duo’s journey is documented in their album, released posthumously for Marco Vittoria.
tefano collaborated with singer and actress Francesca Colapietro on several songs and composer Mariano Bellopede on a LOFI project called Rainbow Tapes.
Trivia and Fun Facts
Stefano Tucci played a street flute player in the Franco-Georgian movie “PaP”.
Stefano Tucci is a LEGO enthusiast, showcasing his creations, such as an ESP Explorer guitar, at the Art of the Brick by Nathan Sawaya exposition in New York in 2013.