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ARPA D. (A.R.P.A.& D.) is a songwriter and author of modern/pop music .After  graduating in piano at the  Giuseppe Verdi conservatory in Turin, he has deepened his musical studies in the field of contemporary music studying voice and modern acoustic guitar with the most important music and vocal teachers of Como and Milano. Up to 2005 he was singer with the group of Endebora (www.endebora.com) performing in different places and locals in northern Italy and Switzerland. Numerous his trips between Italy and the United States as multiple are the collaborations with internationally renowned artists and the participation in music festivals and competitions. In 2009 his  first flight overseas, in Boston, where he recorded “Never caresses”, self-produced debut album under the guidance of Mike Reynold. In 2012 he returns to the United States, in New York, where will be released, for the  Guitars& Soul label, "All around us”, his second album which makes use of the participation of James di  Iorio, Max Grange and Henry Flamming. Is this the period where Arpa D. has done a lot of Pop, Blues, Rock, and Funky experience,  having the opportunity to perform in Massachusset in some prestigioius clubs and pub of live music. His music is deeply characterized by North American pop influences as evidenced by the main use of sounds of acoustic guitars and by the use of rhythms often sustained typical of Anglo-Saxon pop music. Come back to Italy, in 2014 he is engaged in a mini-tour of over 50 concerts in a year, held between Italy and Switzerland. From this experience in October 2014 the cd "Live in Swiss" will be released, an album recorded live that was not released but physically sold at every live concert held in pubs and live events. Again in USA, in 2017 the mini album "You and Me" will be produced by the independent label DrSound, in Boston, with considerable success from critics and audiences. The single “You and me” reach the top spot on the charts for the prestigious emerging music portal “Reverbnation " in November 2018. The years 2019 and 2020 are the most prolific for the artist. Most of the songs of the new album have been composed in 2019. In the 2020, with the tragic event of the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, Arpa D. composes the singles "Tell me why- Covid-19 "and" We don't care ". The first an introspective vision of this tragedy, the second an “antiwarsong” against all forms of racism, violence and intollerance. Arpa D.'s new album will be avaible on all digital stores on October 30th 2020. Actually Arpa D. lives on the lake of Como, performing with his music in mini concert and live music show in clubs and pub waiting for the end of the pandemic. The promotional tour of the new album "We don't care", scheduled for autumn 2020, has been postponed to summer / autumn 2021, at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic