Giacomo Turra

Giacomo Turra is an Italian guitarist and singer born in 1997. Intrigued by the vinyls of his father, Giacomo started playing guitar at the age of 13, learning by jamming on his favorite artists like Stevie Wonder, George Benson and Herbie Hancock. In 2018, he started his musical project JMT, exploring R&B, Funk and Jazz and releasing his first original songs between 2019 and 2020. In March 2020, during the pandemic lockdown, Giacomo started posting video performances on his Instagram account, soon becoming an Artist for New York based guitar company D'Angelico and gaining hundreds of thousands of followers, including artists like Sean Ono Lennon, Bootsy Collins, Sheila E., Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett and band members from Vulfpeck, The Free Nationals, Jamiroquai and Chromeo. In the following months, Giacomo worked also for Guild and Yamaha, creating music videos for their guitars. In July 2021, Giacomo released "The Groove Sessions", a compilation of Funk and R&B covers recorded with renowned musicians and singers from all over the world like Brandon "Taz" Niederauer, Phoebe Katis, Jessica Burdeaux, Carson Elliott, Emanuel Hedberg, Nicole Cerminara, George Collins and Augie Bello.