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Biography

Francesco was born in Washington D.C. (USA) in March 16th 1984 in a hospital on the Potomac river from Claudio Marcocci and Bianca Natale.
The Family moved back in Italy when Francesco was 9 months old and established in Pisa, Tuscany.
Francesco was introduced to music at the age of 10 studying piano in the middle school. After then he started sharing his interested between the music, biology and human rights.
He picked up the electric bass thanks to the advice of Martino Frongia – a friend - at 14 yeas old playing in a “garage/friends” band. At 16, after a Keith Jarret Trio concert, he decided that was time to move to the Double Bass. That night the beautiful interplaying of Gary Peckock moved something in his chest opening his mind to improvise music.
Francesco started studying Jazz and composition at the same time he picked up the upright bass; he needed to find out about music as much as he could in order to be able to expresses himself.
It was after graduating in high school that focusing for a year –already started a year before – just doing nothing, but studying music, Francesco was honored with a scholarship from the Berklee Collge of Music at the Umbria Jazz Clinics 2004. That was a great event that changed Francesco’s life bringing him first to opening the famous Umbria Jazz Festival Winter 2004/2005 and then to Boston to study at the music College.
“Right after a concert I step in to the car, I drive for 2 hours, I get home, pack the double bass, put the luggage in the car and straight to the airport to fly to USA”.
In Boston Francesco found what he was looking for: sharing music with people from all over the world and studying with amazing teachers. He studied bass with J. Lockwood great musician that worked for him as a mentor inspiring and opening Francesco’s mind constantly. It was in this environment that Francesco developed his own language and was inspired to create some projects with the people surrounding him.

First of them Patriq Moody, always present in Marcocci’s projects, that was one of his first friends and best trumpet player in Boston.Francesco decided to start his own bands and is actually touring with those groups from January 2006. Thanks to the school he gets in contact with many different musical languages and approaches evolving his vocabulary.
The different aspects of his playing and his good attitude allowed him to get in to a lot of bands and projects, touring (example - Morocco, Germany, etc.), recordings and gigs where he had the opportunity to meet great musicians and discover new cultures like when he “went in Morocco and felt in love with Gnaua Music thanks to the teaching of the 2 Masters Abdellah “El Gourd’ e Mustapha both Gimbri and Gnoua Masters”.In November 2007 he went to Los Angeles at the Kodak theater with Petros Sakelliou’s Banda Eclectics to receive the award from the T. Monk institute for the best international jazz composition 2007. The same night at the same show there was also the Herbie Hancock tribute concert with many great artist like Sting, Patitucci, W. Shorter, Joni Mitchel and many others. It was a great night in L.A. for Francesco where he had the opportunity to meet people like Patitucci, Shorter and Clark Terry and share thoughts with them. In Boston he found a place where to learn and develop your musicianship seriously.
Right now Francesco is finishing his last semester at Berklee (December 2008) and working on many projects of himself and different people, from film scorings to lectures, gigging around in Boston and doing Tour during the year.
Francesco “will never end loving music; music is part of himself as much as a leg or the heart, even more. Music is my energy. The world is the inspiration”. Thanks to music he is traveling the world and meeting a lot of different cultures and doing different experiences.
“The journey into music just started and it’s a never ending world, full of passions, loves, fears and surprises just like life, it’s beautiful; music is my life, life is my music.