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Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia
About Alex Staropoli
- Alessandro "Alex" Staropoli (born 9 January 1970 in Trieste, Italy) is a keyboard player, composer, leader and co-founder (with Luca Turilli) of the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire.
- He does the orchestral arrangements in all the band's songs.
- Following the split with Turilli, Staropoli is Rhapsody of Fire's only remaining founding member. Alex and Luca met in 1990 during a course in mental techniques (how to have more control of your own mind), and together they started the band Rhapsody (later named as Rhapsody of Fire) in 1993.When Alex was a child he was mainly interested in nature – mountains, forests and lakes.
- At the age of nine he got his first piano and began to study its basics, and at the age of fourteen he bought his first electric guitar.
- After meeting Luca, but before the creation of Rhapsody of Fire, he bought a Korg 01/W pro keyboard, a model he still uses.
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