Hi everybody, I’m Canio Rosario Maffucci the owner of MAFFUCCI MUSIC & SONOS MUSIC RECORDS and work in Italian Music Industry. I’m a Music Producer and Multi-Label Owner who has also been for 10 years a chair in the Board of Directors of PMI in Milan, the most important Italian Association of Music Producers and Labels, a great honour that walk hand in hand with my being a pianist, a composer and an arranger too.
I want to tell you something of my story that was packed of struggles and failures not only at the beginning of the journey… and just those negative experiences have even strengthened my love of life (if it was ever possible to have more) and motivated me so much to achieve a success in my work.
Hi everybody, I want to tell you my story in music that has very deep and ancestral roots since my ancestors Antonio Corbisiero (1720-1790) was on Opera Composer in Napoli and his brother Francesco Corbisiero (1733-1804) was the organist of the King of Naples’ Royal Chapel… my mother herself (Elena Addeo), even working as a midwife, was a trained Soprano and since my first conception day 9 months ahead my birth, I began to listen to Italian Opera Arias and all that classic music and Neapolitan Songs my mother sang tirelessly from dawn to night (she would sing even a Beethoven’s symphony from first to last note while being around in our house).
Would you believe that as a child I didn’t want to study music?
Well, my sister ignited my sense of proudness since she started to study music and I couldn’t bear to know somethig less than her… so I found myself involved in music! Then we performed a lot as a Piano Duo unitl I was 18yo with a repertorie in which 4 Hands Piano Music from Mozart, Clementi and Beethoven was a religious worshipping celebration for us and our Brahms’ Hungarian Dances workhorses were the ace on the hole because always unleashed endless applause from the audience… I do love my sister, a genius much more talented than me!
Then something happened that turned off my inner light… yes, life can be dusky without something or somebody who you really love and form which/who you are reciprocated…
I studied at university in Napoli but the city and the environment around me turned off all my passion and quickly eroded my energies and involvement in music, reading books, joining cultural life… I was body-ashamed by girls for having put up many kilos after leaving active sport practsing and the only thing I save from those meangless years was the love for chess playing. For the rest I didn’t achieve anything: no university bachelor, no girls, no social life, just often sitting there ticking off empty days like a Rosary… I felt so drained off by life and by the lacking of love I desperately was in needing.
I have a blank memory of my life with regard to the years between 18yo and 30yo when I finally set up my Music Company (it was 1998) and then in 2K I went in New York that was like a spiritual awakening for me.
