I mix records, teach synthesis, and make music. This is my studio. Pull up a chair.

My Story

1. 1972 — Rome

   Where it starts

   I was born in Rome in 1972, and I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I started playing keyboards at three years old, and by nine I was studying classical piano and playing school recitals. Music wasn't a hobby — it was the thing that made sense to me.

2. 1987 — First studio gig

   Fifteen years old, tape rolling

   At fifteen, I landed my first professional studio gig — programming drum machines for my piano teacher, Antonella D'Atri, who was also a film composer. That first taste of the studio changed everything. By sixteen, I was studying jazz piano at the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, producing tracks in my bedroom studio, and playing live gigs at night. At eighteen, I became an in-house producer at the same studio where I'd first started.

3. 1992 — Los Angeles

   Capitol Records and the American school

   At twenty, I moved to Los Angeles to study orchestral composing and arranging at The Grove School of Music. LA was where I soaked up American studio traditions, jazz harmony, and the business side of music. I worked with world-class players — John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, Paul Jackson Jr., Luis Conte. I recorded my debut album After Hours at Capitol Records for Sony's Rossodisera label. Those years taught me what professional really means.

   

4. 1993 — Back to Italy

   Zucchero, Lucio Dalla, and a Sanremo award

   I returned to Italy in 1993, and the higher-profile gigs started coming. I played keyboards, produced records, and conducted orchestras for some of the biggest names in Italian music: Zucchero, Lucio Dalla, Pino Daniele. In 1997, I formed the duo Eramo & Passavanti. We went to Festival di Sanremo in 1998 and received Michael Nyman's Award for Best Performance for our song Senza Confini.

5. 2002 — London

   East End, a label, and seven albums

   I moved to London at thirty, drawn by the creativity of the East End music scene. I worked as an in-house producer at Almighty Records until 2004, when I founded my own label. My salsa rework of I Believe In Miracles became a cult 12" vinyl, selling over 10,000 copies, and opened doors worldwide. I went on to release seven albums between 2005 and 2014, blending jazz, funk, Latin, and electronic production.

   

6. 2006 — Doctor Mix

   The studio goes online

   In 2006, I founded Doctor Mix — one of the first online services for mixing, mastering, and production. What started as a studio offering evolved into something bigger. I started a YouTube channel to share the techniques I'd learned over two decades: equipment deep-dives, track recreations, studio tours, and practical production tips. The channel grew to over 820,000 subscribers, and making content genuinely changed the course of my life.

7. Today

   Full circle

   Along the way, I've had the pleasure of collaborating with instrument makers I grew up admiring: Yamaha, Roland, Rhodes, Moog. Their gear fills my studio, and their engineers have become collaborators. It's a full-circle moment every time I demo a Rhodes piano or dig into a Moog patch for a video.