Steve D'Apano - A percussionist with over 30 years of experience, he was a student of the well-known Puerto Rican percussionist Ray Mantilla. He has played with several groups in various musical contexts, from jazz rock to ethnomusic, pop and jazz fusion. He is currently part of the Latin American music group ‘Encanto’. He has a great passion for Smooth Jazz, Nu Soul, Nu Jazz, Lounge Jazz, Bossa Nova and Latin American music. He is the author of lyrics and music, with the album "Anime & Abbracci", published in 2024 and during 2025 on all music platforms, and a writer of fiction and poetry with a collection of poems, ‘Note inaudite’, CLEUP editions, Padua, Italy, and several short stories published for ‘Sensoinverso Editions", Ravenna , Italy.