Strings 24

Stefano "Sebo" Xotta's Bands

STRINGS 24
FOUR TILES
UTEZ
SOLO SESSION

Stefano “Sebo” Xotta is active as a session man with many important italian artists.
He is an official Ibanez and Line6 clinician.

Visit his personal website or myspace for more details

Official web site:
www.sebo.tv



myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/stefanoseboxotta

Biography
Sebo started playing guitar at the age of 14, he spent the early years playing with some bands made at school.
At the age of 18 he started studying at CPM in Milan and he had the opportunity to appear in some inportant TV shows on big TV networks (Canale 5, Italia 1, Rete4), and to tour across Italy as a guest with the Steve Rogers Band with the female singer Gloria Nuti in 1989.
In the early '90s he started teaching guitar while he was performing with various bands like UTEZ (2 demos), Scomunica ( 2 albums) and many others…
In 1994 he started working as a clinician for Ibanez guitars, then in 1996 he joined the Italian Ibanez distributor, Mogar Music, looking aftter clinics and artist relations. Thanks to this opportunity, Sebo started dealing with musical instruments industry and dealers, giving his inputs as an artist and a performer.
In the mean time his musical activity was made by tons of live gigs and it started work on jingles for tv commercials and sit coms soundtracks with Flavio Premoli (PFM). He also recorded some guitar tracks on the record "Dracula" of PFM, from the original Dracula musical.
In 2000 he created the Four Tiles, a cover band with Cesareo (Elio e le Storie Tese), Roberto Gualdi (PFM, Lucio Dalla, Glen Huges and many others), and Guido Block.
During the last years he performed in a lot of clinics and music trade shows, playing with artists like Andy Timmons, Marty Friedman, Matt Smith, Doug Doppler and many others.
He performed at Guitar Day Show in Milan for three years and he's going to be there with Strings 24 in 2008.
Now he formed a power rock trio with Roberto Gualdi and Alberto Bollati, they perform in many trade shows and the play seminars inside Italian music schools, they also recorder together some videos for a new Drum Method distributed in all the biggest stores in our country by Mussida Publishing..
He recorded in 2007 a couple of promotional videos for Ibanez using a cow pattern VBT 700 guitar, they're frequently clicked on the web.
Sebo has a really rock and loud approach on stage and his cow pattern typical look is becoming pretty famous and makes him pretty recognisable.

GUITARS:
Ibanez SZ1220 Cow Pattern
Ibanez RG Sebo Signature
Ibanez RG2228 GK
Ibanez S7420FM TT
Ibanez VBT 700 Cow Pattern
Ibanez RG550M XX DY
Ibanez AT 100 BS
Ibanez AT 300 BS
Ibanez RG25001
Ibanez RG7321 BK
Ibanez AF75D TOR

Amplification
Mesa Boogie Stiletto Deuce Stage II Cow Pattern
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Head Cow Pattern
2 x Mesa Boogie Recto Traditional 4x12” Cabinet Cow Pattern
Line 6 Flextone II Plus Cow Pattern
Line 6 Flextone II XL
Line 6 Spider Valve 2x12”

Stefano "Sebo" Xotta Uses Ibanez Guitar,
Mesa Boogie and Line 6 amp & effects