Carlo Truzzi & Simona
Biography
“Voyager of the Seas” Theater.
Carlo made his debut in show business at the age of 12 when he started his first guitar lessons.
He was very passionate about rhythmic music and after a couple of years he decided to go from the guitar to the drums and played the drums and cymbals for more than ten years with several music groups.
At the age of 18, he took his first trip to the USA and met Patrick Martin, with whom he is related, for the first time in San Francisco.
Patrick was a prominent illusionist in California and Carlo followed him when he put on his shows, fascinated by the art of conjuring and stage magic.
When he came back to Italy, he continued his career in music as a drummer and simultaneously he started to study the art of magic and developed his show based on hands and their ability to create illusions.
Carlo was always on the look out for original ideas, but he decided to dedicate himself to the art of shadows created with hands.
The enormous evocative capacity of this art form fascinated him and interested him so much artistically that he had to find a new technique to totally re-invent and renew this antique form of entertainment.
He taught himself a new technique with only his bare hands, on how to create, incredible silhouettes of human faces, in particular, well known celebrities, so that the audience could be surprised and entertained at the magical appearances of these perfectly recognisable shadow profiles.
The idea to create an even more exciting and complete shadow show drove Carlo to create a 4 handed show involving Simona to support his creations. The shadow celebrities in their show thus became protagonists of comical scenes, or moments of grandeur and poetry.
This is how they started their four handed Shadow shows and in 1990 the pivotal moment arrived from an artistic perspective. Carlo and Simona were pointed out to Pippo Baudo, who was the most important presenter on the Rai Italian Television in that period. He not only presented but also scripted the most important national televised variety shows.
The enormous evocative capacity of this art form fascinated him and interested him so much artistically that he had to find a new technique to totally re-invent and renew this antique form of entertainment.
He taught himself a new technique with only his bare hands, on how to create, incredible silhouettes of human faces, in particular, well known celebrities, so that the audience could be surprised and entertained at the magical appearances of these perfectly recognisable shadow profiles.
The idea to create an even more exciting and complete shadow show drove Carlo to create a 4 handed show involving Simona to support his creations. The shadow celebrities in their show thus became protagonists of comical scenes, or moments of grandeur and poetry.
This is how they started their four handed Shadow shows and in 1990 the pivotal moment arrived from an artistic perspective. Carlo and Simona were pointed out to Pippo Baudo, who was the most important presenter on the Rai Italian Television in that period. He not only presented but also scripted the most important national televised variety shows.
Baudo was very careful about entertainment quality, he let them make their debut on prime time in a Rai 1 programme called “Gran Premio” which was a competition among young artists from all over Italy.
That evening, Carlo and Simona’s performance received the most votes and impressed the jury the most. Besides the record ratings for Italian TV during the performance there were over 11 million TV viewers.
Over the years, the television appearances became more frequent and so too the requests to be guests from other important television networks in Italy and all over Europe.
Since their very first appearance on television until today, this has become their profession and their ability and originality has led them over the years to share stages with great artists from all over the world, and to host prestigious guests such as Sophia Loren, Phil Collins and Cèline Dion, just to name a few.
They have often been guests with their show in hundreds of company meetings, cruise ships and theatres all over Europe, Asia, America, Australia and New Zealand.
Years and years of professional experience and their incredible manual ability are the equivalent of an expert musician who is absolutely dedicated to his instrument.
Their hands study chords, new positions, innovative harmonious shadow shapes and that is exactly why they are known as “Light Musicians”.
The feeling that you get when you have witnessed one of their shows is that incredibly, you have seen light being played!
