Giacomo Turra, the virtuoso of the fake that makes the world of viral guitar tremble – Liberation

Until a few weeks ago, Giacomo Turra was a promising Italian guitarist, a small cap of a jealously guarded digital kingdom: that of viral virtuosity. A world where prowess on six strings filmed in the intimacy of a bedroom or a home studio gauge themselves in the light of Likes on Instagram and views on YouTube, before turning into global tours and sponsorization of such a manufacturer of skyscrapers, such a brand of string, etc. Thus, Turra, born 28 years ago in Milan, was, as wrote Guitar worldthe archetype of « Bedroom Player » became « Spotify Star » (one of his singles culminates there at 4.3 million listening), invited to ensure the first part of the Jazz George Benson icon and welcomed VIP in the legendary mother house of Fender instruments.

The specialized press was enthusiastic about the dazzling route of this self -taught hatch during the confinements linked to the COVVID, past « Concerts at the Lycée festival at Club Paradiso in Amsterdam ». Turra himself conceded the « Oddity » of his career, he who was still little ago a « Rather basic guitarist, not bad, but in no case special », « Unable to read a score » and ignoring the ranges « Apart from pentatonic » – the five notes of the blues – but still capable of improvising creamy solos