He started making music when he was six, even though no one in his family was a professional musician. Growing up, Francesco Le Metre had always music around him, but as a kid he had no idea it was going to become his career.

“I started playing piano and then eventually switched over to drums and lastly electric bass,” the Sicilian composer, now 30 years old, recalls from his house in Los Angeles, where he moved after studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. “In 2011 I moved from Catania to the USA because I wanted to pursue a career as a bass player.