Igor Leonardi

Igor Leonardi was born in Ljubljana in 1958. He studied jazz and classical guitar at the Music Academy in Graz, Austria. At the age of 19 he traveled to India in search of spiritual and musical experiences, beginning a lifelong journey which took him, years later, throughout Asia and Africa. On his travels he learned to play many musical instruments: Indian and Arabian lute, oud, saz, gaita, kora harp... "In Africa I saw and heard the roots of jazz, especially on balafons (a kind of marimbas).