Mao

Mao, stage name of Mauro Gurlino, was born in Turin, Italy, on 16 April 1971. As he likes to say, Turin is somewhere between Foggia and Aosta. He earned a degree in History and Criticism of Cinema at the University of Turin, with a thesis on Adriano Celentano’s musical film “Yuppi du”. «He is and has been anything», as a journalist once put it, describing his eclectic thirty-year career. In the Nineties he led the band Mao e la Rivoluzione, releasing two records for Virgin Records (“Sale” and “Casa”), attending the Sanremo Festival with “Romantico” and performing the opening act for Oasis. He…