There are stories that begin in silence.
Andrea Quarantelli’s begins with the quiet sound of a father’s guitar. In Genova, Liguria, a ten-year-old boy listened. He learned his first chords by heart, and let the strings guide him. The years that followed were filled with discovery, moments alone with the instrument, and later, study under Maestro Marco Cravero at the Roland Music School. But Andrea’s true school was time. Stages. Bands. Shared songs. Long nights. Deep listening.

His hands have played on more than twenty albums. His guitar has echoed on national television, and followed emerging voices to the stage of Sanremo, where he performed at Sanremo Giovani and Sanremo Rock. Yet it isn’t the spotlight that defines him. It’s the search. A quiet, constant journey toward something more personal. Something honest.

Since 2015, Andrea has worked closely with MN Guitars, giving voice to the wood and soul of their handcrafted acoustic and classical guitars. He carries the touch of blues, the pulse of funk and folk, and the poetry of Italian songwriting. His musical roots are deep, nourished by artists like Hendrix, Robben Ford, Clapton, Satriani, and Tommy Emmanuel, not imitated, but felt as a quiet breath inside his own expression.

In recent years, Andrea stepped away from the stage. The loud, the fast, the expected. He began listening inward.
From that stillness came something new. Music without words. Personal, acoustic, delicate. Sounds shaped by memory, by feeling, by the passing seasons of his life.

His debut with Raighes Factory marks this turning point.
Bentu, a piece inspired by the wind of Sardinia, carries both tenderness and strength. It speaks of cliffs and sea, of silence and motion, of nature’s wild embrace.
Scottish River, born on a spring afternoon in Liguria, flows with the memory of distant Scotland. A place he’s never called home, yet one that calls him still. Moss, water, rock. Roots that somehow feel familiar.

Andrea Quarantelli doesn’t play to impress. He plays to remember. To connect.
To transform what is lived into something that can be felt again, and again.
His guitar is a voice. A soft, clear voice for everything that lives between words.