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Alex Argento is a progressive metal artist from Sicily, Italy. Alex is a metal/fusion keyboard player and composer who only started to play when he was 16 years old. From 1994 to 2003 he performed with several cover bands in his country as session player, covering different musical styles. His playing was most influenced by prog and fusion music like: Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Alain Caron, Tribal Tech, Allan Holdswoth. This music helped him to develop his improvisational skills over chord changes.
On May 1 (2007), he released his first instrumental progressive metal/fusion solo album entitled "EGO", together with Marco Sfogli (from James Labrie's bands) on guitars and Stefano Ruscica on drums. The album features also some guest appearances by great musicians like: Alessandro Benvenuti (guitars / solo artist), Fabrizio Leo (guitars / Shrapnel's artist), Jon Reshard (bass / Greg Howe's band).