Antonio Gentile born in Florence on April, 6th, 1961 and starts to play percussion at the age of 16. He starts to study afrocuban percussion together with Karl Potter. He studies music theory with Bruno Tommaso and starts playing jazz on the 80's. In fact at the age of 20 he becames a
professional musician playing either jazz or latin music or pop or classical. He meets the peruvian singer and percussionist Manuel Bramon and knows the afro peruvian tipical instrument called cajon. At the same time he studies the afro-brasilian and the afro-colombian music as well the west african drumming with the african master Assane Adissa. In his twenty-aged career he has played with artists and bands as Billy Cobham, Gabriella Ferri, D-note, Vili Lakatos, Mambo Kids, Urban Funk, Canela. He's founder and co-leader of a lot of bands like Off Beat, Icnusa, Bluesource, Guararé and World Duo. He has been playing with some jazz big bands as the CAM big band director Bruno Tommaso, Enrico Rava, the Barga Jazz Big Band director Bruno Tommaso, the Great Naco Orchestra director Massimo Colombo, the Sound Big Band director Franco Baggiani. He has being teaching for 15 years. He founds the CSAP (Percussive Art Study Center) and create the study program called Percussion Master®.

cd credits
1999 URBAN FUNK SOUND "W Tex"
1998 GREAT NACO ORCHESTRA SYMPHONIA "The Great Naco Orchestra"
1997 Compilation "This is my story vol.II" SONY BLUESOURCE
1996 FUENTES MA.SO. "Garam Masala"
coming soon:
WORLD DUO "World Duo"