Mao

Biography

Mao, stage name of Mauro Gurlino, was born in Turin, Italy, on 16 April 1971. As he likes to say, Turin is somewhere between Foggia and Aosta. He earned a degree in History and Criticism of Cinema at the University of Turin, with a thesis on Adriano Celentano’s musical film “Yuppi du”. «He is and has been anything», as a journalist once put it, describing his eclectic thirty-year career.

In the Nineties he led the band Mao e la Rivoluzione, releasing two records for Virgin Records (“Sale” and “Casa”), attending the Sanremo Festival with “Romantico” and performing the opening act for Oasis. He presented, with Andrea Pezzi, several shows on MTV Italy (“Kitchen”, “Hot”, “Romalive”, “Tiziana”,...