Salmo

Maurizio Pisciottu, born in 1984, is a Sardinian artist, rapper, producer and director. Always a provocateur, after a ten-year apprenticeship in hip-hop and hardcore punk, Salmo has taken the Italian rap scene, in particular rap and urban, but also pop, and changed its genre connotations, introducing elements of electronic and hardcore rap as had yet to be seen here in Italy. With over 72 platinum records and 3 billion streams on Spotify, he has several successful albums to his credit: “Playlist” (2018, seven times platinum), which includes “IL CIELO NELLA STANZA” (five platinum records, over 165 million streams on Spotify), the most played single in Italy in the last 10 years. Salmo’s creative activity is not limited to being a producer and rapper: he is founder of the Machete crew, director of video clips, and in 2022 he debuted as an actor and soundtrack composer for the Sky series “Blocco 181”. He is the most recognised live artist in Italy, with hundreds of concerts behind him, including a show at the San Siro stadium in Milan. He performs together with his band LE CARIE, an all-star team with which Salmo has decided to give voice to his punk fantasies. In 2021 he also crossed over into the techno dimension, with his DJ sets and his Dj Treeplo project. This year he is back in the business with his colleague Noyz Narcos, with the platinum-selling joint album “CVLT”: preceded by the short film shot by horror maestro Dario Argento, the album is an old-school rap with special guests Kid Yugi and Marracash. and the respective “CVLT Hellraisers”. His latest work includes a single with Zucchero, and collaborations with Lucienn, Dani Faiv, Achille Lauro and Gemitaiz.