Davide Lo Surdo

Davide Lo Surdo (born July 24, 1999) is an Italian guitarist. Rolling Stone described him as the fastest guitarist in the history of music due to his ability to play 129 notes per second[2] and has also been called a "living legend of the history of music".[3]

Davide Lo Surdo
Born (1999-07-24) July 24, 1999[1]
Rome, Italy
GenresRock
Occupation(s)Guitarist
Instrument(s)Guitar
Years active2008–present
Labels
  • Independent
Websitedavidelosurdo.com

Early life

Lo Surdo was born in 1999 in Rome. He started playing guitar at the age of nine.[4]

Career

Lo Surdo was awarded at the Sanremo Music Awards in Italy as the fastest guitarist of all time[5] and in 2020, he released Destiny, which was included in the Sanremo Music Awards compilation 2020.[6]

During his tour of India in January 2020, Lo Surdo played in cities such as Guwahati, Kharagpur, and Calcutta,[7] and performed at the 10th edition of Rolling Stone Music & Run at Anhembi Sambadrome in São Paulo, Brazil the following year.[8][9]

Lo Surdo also toured in Mexico, United States, Germany, United Kingdom and he played with Steve Vai, Jeff Loomis, Mark Boals and Mike Stern.[10]

In May 2021, he performed for Bengali Television DBC News[11] and the following year, he played in Bolivia on television networks Red Uno de Bolivia and Red ATB in the programs “El Mañanero” and “La Mañana de Todos”.[12]

In 2022, Lo Surdo released Full Emersion, in which he reflected on the radical changes in his life.[13]

During the same year, he performed for the first time in La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra and his Bolivia tour was sponsored by Billboard.[14]

Style

His style is shred[15] and to reach 129 notes per second, Lo Surdo uses the sweep picking technique, playing a sequence of five arpeggios on the first three strings of the guitar.[16]

Discography
  • Destiny (Sanremo Music Awards Compilation) (2020)
  • Resilience (2022)
  • Full Emersion (2022)

References
  1. "Bio". Davide Lo Surdo. davidelosurdo.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  2. "Davide Lo Surdo não quer entrar para Livro dos Recordes: 'Prefiro que venham ao meu show' [ENTREVISTA]". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 10 December 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2022. O guitarrista mais rápido da história, Davide Lo Surdo consegue tocar 129 notas por segundo
  3. "Davide Lo Surdo, leyenda viviente de la historia de la música - Diario El Mercurio". El Mercurio (Ecuador). Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  4. "Bio". davidelosurdo.com/. Retrieved 2022-10-26. Davide Lo Surdo was born in Rome, Italy on July 24th 1999 and started playing guitar at the age of 9 inspired by his neighbor.
  5. "3 lições para virar um mestre da guitarra - e tocar o instrumento na velocidade da luz [LISTA]". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-06-30. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  6. "News Insonnia Report - La Compilation del Sanremo Music Awards 2020 in uscita sui Digital Store e nei maggiori negozi di dischi". www.mescalina.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  7. Ferreira, Verus (18 July 2021). "'Plan to come back on a tour to India': Fastest guitarist Davide Lo Surdo speaks about his musical journey". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  8. "Rolling Stone Music & Run: aos 10 anos, evento marca volta dos Titãs aos palcos, além de apresentações de Warriors e Davide Lo Surdo". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 21 November 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  9. "Rolling Stone Music & Run proporciona encontro entre música e esporte em evento seguro". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  10. "Davide Lo Surdo é o guitarrista mais rápido da história". whiplash.net (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  11. "বিশ্বের দ্রুততম গিটারিস্ট বাজালেন 'এলো খুশির ঈদ'". DBC News (in Bengali). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  12. s.r.l, Rockol com. "√ Il chitarrista più veloce della storia è italiano". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  13. "Davide Lo Surdo: o guitarrista mais rápido da história lança uma nova música". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 8 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022. Davide Lo Surdo, o guitarrista mais rápido da história, lançou sua nova faixa, "Full Emersion," no último domingo, 04. Explorando suas habilidades técnicas, músico refletiu sobre "mudanças radicais" em sua vida.
  14. "Davide Lo Surdo, el guitarrista más rápido de la historia de la música, tocó en Bolivia en 2022". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  15. "Rolling Stone Music & Run 2021: Conheça Davide Lo Surdo, mestre da guitarra e uma das atrações do evento". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 27 October 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2022. Davide Lo Surdo percebeu, aos 15 anos, o gênero com o qual se identificava: o Shred.
  16. "Davide Lo Surdo / The Fastest Guitarist in History to release new song". MetalTalk. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022. To achieve this record, Davide's technique was to play a sequence of five different arpeggios based on the first three strings of the instrument (E–B–G) using the sweep-picking technique.
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