Giacomo Castellano was born in Florence, Italy, on 10th April 1969.
He picked up his first guitar when he was 14 years old.
At age 19, he moved to Hollywood and went to study at Muscians Institute (MI) in Los Angeles. After that experience and full of a new inspiring energy, he returned to Italy and started to teach in several important Music Schools, began writing regular articles for specialised guitar magazines, giving seminars all around the country, and publishing guitar technique manuals that are used by thousands of Italian students.
From 1990, parallel to his didactic activity, he started to play both in the studio and on stage, bringing a personal rock “accent” to mainly pop productions. He worked with many artists, and amongst them he likes to remember Vasco Rossi, Gianluca Grignani, Irene Grandi, Gianna Nannini, Elisa, Rosana Arbelo (Spain), Monica Naranjo (Spain), Lougarx (Spain), the Spanish edition of WE WILL ROCK YOU,  the musical written by THE QUEEN and most recently Noemi, the new italian Pop Star with whom he still actively collaborates. 
GC has always been interested in producing and arranging, after several years of underground local productions  he published, at the end of 2004,  his first solo CD, which was produced partly in his Florence studio and partly in his one in Madrid. CUTTING BRIDGES is a selection of “chapters” of his professional life, which includes the great collaboration of incredibly gifted artists. The tracks of the CD are rich and diverse, eclectic and unpredictable, but their common denominator is his guitar, the very instrument that makes GC a great artist.
CB received acclaimed reviews in all specialised magazines and it is now part of the record collection of worldwide “connoisseurs”.
Following the publication of his CD, he started to take part as a guitar player, but also as producer and arranger, in many interesting projects with independent artists in Italy, Germany and Spain.
Subsequently, he kept touring, recording and taking part in TV programs, almost incessantly. While touring with GN, he met Thomas Lang. With him, he has started an international enterprise on several works. The latest will be represented by “Chumash”, a forthcoming acoustic album project with strong ethnic influences and with amazing guest musicians, such as:.......and many more. 


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