| Luca Turilli | |
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| Birth name | Luca Turilli |
| Born | March 5, 1972 Trieste, Italy |
| Genres | Power metal, neo-classical metal, symphonic metal |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, keyboards, drums, vocals |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Associated acts | Rhapsody of Fire Luca Turilli's Dreamquest |
Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972[1][2]) is an Italian musician (primarily a guitarist) and composer. He is one of the founders of the symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire.[1] He also worked on a trilogy of solo albums as Luca Turilli. He has now formed a second side band, named Luca Turilli's Dreamquest, alongside Dominique Leurquin,[3] which released its first album, Lost Horizons, in the summer of 2006.[4] More recently in fall 2008 he also began an online guitar course, titled Luca Turilli's Neoclassical Revelation. The course takes its name from his neoclassical playing style.[5]
On every Rhapsody of Fire album, Luca is the only lyricist and composes all the music with the keyboardist, Alex Staropoli (except for Il Canto del Vento written, lyrics and music, by the vocalist, Fabio Lione) and plays most of the lead guitars. He composes all the music for both his solo projects. He plays guitars on his solo trilogy and keyboards with Luca Turilli's Dreamquest featuring Dominique Leurquin as the guitarist.
For his fourth solo album, Turilli plans to make a tribute to the power metal band Helloween, an imaginary Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 4 as he said. He will introduce more power metal elements, a giant orchestra and some guests.[6]
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Turilli uses custom "Luca Turilli" electric guitars made by the French luthier Cristopher Capelli. He has four of them (blue,black, red and white) Specifications: Pickups are Seymour Duncan TB-6 (bridge position) and Dimarzio Humbucker from Hell (neck). It has also original Floyd rose and a custom "vine" mother pearl inlay. 22 frets.
He has used Ibanez guitars in the past (Ibanez S540 LTD). For acoustic parts, he uses Gibson acoustic guitars.
He has used Mesa Boogie amplifiers and Marshall cabs. During his last tour 2011 he has been seeing playing through an ENGL powerball II connected to some rack effects unit.
Turilli was born in Trieste, Venezia Giulia. Due to the influence of his father, he became interested in classical music and learned to play piano and guitar. In 1993 he founded the band Thundercross, which was renamed Rhapsody after releasing the first demo,[7] and renamed once again to Rhapsody of Fire for copyright reasons in 2006.
In interviews, he has said that Manowar, Blind Guardian, Helloween, and Crimson Glory are influences on him and the rest of Rhapsody Of Fire.
Luca Turilli is considered one of the most influential and prominent modern power metal guitarists. His rhythm playing is very much similar to that of guitarists such as Timo Tolkki and Kai Hansen, in that he uses extensive use of power chords, palm muting, and pedal tones. He also is influenced by guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen and Jason Becker with his neo-classical structuring and phrasing. His lead playing often includes extensive use of sweep picked arpeggios, tremolo picking, classically influenced phrases, and scales such as aeolian, harmonic minor, phrygian mode, locrian, and melodic minor.
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