Since his childhood Claudio has always been interested in music playing, particularly for drums and percussions. Claudio grew up listening to the "big names" of Italian music (Mingardi, Morandi, De Gregori, Vasco Rossi, Battisti….), but also David Bowie, Beatles, Bee Gees, Elton John, Barry White…. basically all of his father’s favourite music!
Influenced by his cousin, during his teen-age years, Claudio discovered hard-rock music, listening to bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and also the more "rock-trendy" bands of the 90s: Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns n' Roses, AC/DC, Aerosmith.
At the age of sixteen Claudio joined the citizen's band of the town in order to learn some music rudiments. Considering his commitment to learn more about music he quits the citizen's band and joined a (serious) music school where, thanks to the experience of his teacher (Lele Barbieri), he learned the basics of drum playing. For three years Claudio had drum lessons, learning to play very different music styles such as: fusion, jazz and funk. For a couple of years Claudio played together with some other friends in a cover band. Meantime Claudio got in touch with a fellow citizen named Sergio, who influenced him with ambient and electronic music (Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Portishead…). After some time he became a member of his project Act Noir.