giuseppebondi(at)thymajestie.com
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My name's Giuseppe Bondì, and I'm the keyboard player of the band. I was born in October 1974 and I live in Palermo.
I discovered in myself, since the first years of my life, a marked artistic talent. I started by drawing, just imagine that when I was about three years old I drew in a sheet of then card, a little house with a sloping roof and what looked strange was that the difference between the drawn house and a real one was not too much. Later my artistic expression turned into the true meaning of art: sculpture, poetry, painting, music and anithing that concerns. Them made me see the world under a different light.
Thanks to that I became really sensitive, open to human relations, but I must say, sometimes searching for a loneliness which makes me think over about the past and future, about my actions and reactions of everything that surrounds me.Several events, sametimes not good, leaded me towards a strong and ambitions attitude and in case of need ironical end witty.
I turned interested in music when i was just six, I can remember in
that period I spent long time watching several happy musicians who
expressed their thoughts by music on TV, but particularly I was interested
in piano players. Due to this fact, my parents, that I still thank, bought
me a little keyboard as a toy. It was just two octaves, but it seemed to
me the whole world.
A keyboard that worked by electric ventilation, but so weak that when I
pushed more than two keys its sound became weaker and weaker. But that
time I could play, in spite of this, a part of AVE MARIA
by Schubert, the same piece I listened to on
TV that day. My parents bought me, some month later, a bigger keyboard. I
played so much and later I started with embarassing live performances
tangos, tarantellas and other ballads. I was fourteen when I and my
brother Gioacchino (he was very young too) improvvised in a duet (keyboard/guitar),
two years later we started to play with our first band. We played soft rock, the great rock stars tracks. We longed for playing
and we sacrificed every thing for it. We rehearsed even without a
rehearsal room, in turn in the house of the other dwellers of the building
couldn't stand such a situation.
We emptied a room, moving all the furniture to the walls and we filled it
by cables, amplifiers, drums set... irresponsible but determined. I had
several bands befor meeting Claudio Diprima the actual drummer of my band.
We understood each other straightaway, I made him listen to a song of mine
and with great enthusiam we abandoned the covers to work with great
passion to that project called THY MAJESTIE. We did a selection before chosing the actual
musicians of Thy Majestie but
not concentrated only on their technical musical skill... I mean, we
looked for friendship too. I am satisfied of the guys who are dividing
with me this period that I hope will be grateful as soon as possible. I've
always been interested in classical music even if I do not think I got a
great culture about it, but some piece, recorded in a cassette or in an
old LP, made me understand its meaning.
I love it because I think, about
music, it is the greatest expression of human spirit that excites even the
smallest corner of my heart. This influences my compositions, and I am
glad of that. I got near rock tracks as Europe's "The Final
Countdown", then Guns n'Roses through Metallica and so on. Now I am
freak with Symphony X, Stratovarius (the best N.d.T.), Kamelot & co.
that are lords of my brain and what springs out is a symphonic power metal
with medieval influences that sounds very good, we think. Why Middle
Age? I think I can watch medieval films those
great soundtracks for hours, perhaps I don't remember the scenes,
but surely their music won't desert my mind.
I am a land-surveyor, but I
like those elements linked to this job too like projecting, building. My
hobbies are several, drawing, paiting, playing, observing and studying the
universe, working at the gymnasium and between a rehearsal and another I
turn myself into a clown with a rich repertory of grimaces, sounds and
characters with voices and faces that are absurd (first of all Mr.Pazzone
, Cillo , Keng , u' signò Raffaieli , U signò Ventolino , and others), I give a real show,
making my band laugh, a missed cabarettist.But now
it is enough, it's time of music, it's time of ...THY MAJESTIE