Bio Full Biography »

Italian singer/songwriter Davide "The Niro" Combusti was born in Rome October 6, 1978. The son of a drummer, the first musical instrument he started playing was the drums, but later on he learned guitar and bass, too. After some minor experiences in the Roman underground music scene as a drummer, he started his own band in 2002 , and called it the Niro, for which he was both the singer and the songwriter. After the band split in 2004, Combusti kept the moniker for himself, thus starting a proper solo career. In the following years he opened the Italian gigs of important international acts such as Sondre Lerche, Lou Barlow, Isobel Campbell, Badly Drawn Boy, and even Deep Purple and Amy Winehouse, and in the meantime he had the chance to play in both Italy and abroad (France, Austria, United States). In 2006, the Niro was invited to Boston to take part to an international tribute to Elliott Smith, where he played Smith's song "Everything Reminds Me of Her," and -- thanks to the interes...