Francesco Cusa, a drummer and composer, was born in Catania in 1966. Performed with well-known musicians such as: Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi, Marco Micheli, Bruno Tommaso, Larry Smith, Walter Schmocker, Lauro Rossi, Gianni Gebbia, Fabrizio Puglisi, Stefano De Bonis, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Domenico Caliri, Luigi Mosso, Edoardo Marraffa, Cristina Zavalloni, Lelio Giannetto, Alberto Capelli, Riccardo Pittau, Mirko Sabatini , Jay Rodriguez, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, Michel Godard, Kenny Wheeler, Garbis Dedeian, Steve Lacy, Tim Berne, Stefano D’Anna, Pietro Ciancaglini, Paolino Dalla Porta, Roy Paci, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Turkoz, Flying Luttembachers, Andy Sheppard, Michael Riessler, Yves Robert, Giorgio Conte, Fred Giuliani, Zu, Mohammed El Bawi, E. Glerum, Assif Tsahar, Natalia M.King, Lionel Rolland , Dj.Pushy, Christophe Monniot, Tanja Feichtmair, Manu Codjia, Emil Spany, Arrington De Dionyso, Gianluca Petrella, Claudio Lugo, Marco Cappelli, Jean Marc Montera, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Danilo Gallo, Beppe Scardino, Francesco Bigoni, Stefano Senni, Piero Bittolo Bon, i Robotobibok, Giovanni Falzone, Tito Magialajo, Enrico Terragnoli, Carlos Zingaro,John Tilbury, Gianni Lenoci, Billy Bang, Antono Borghini, Pasquale Mirra, Francesco Bearzatti, Carlo Atti, Amy Denio, Vincenzo Vasi, Mike Cooper, Giorgio Pacorig, Paolo Sorge, Pasquale Innarella, Tony Cattano, Silvia Bolognesi, Leila Adu, Marta Raviglia, Henry Cook, Giacomo Ancillotto, Roberto Raciti, Federico Squassabia, Gaia Mattiuzzi, Dean Bowman, Don Byron, Peter van Bergen, Jan Willem Van Der Ham, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Michael Occhipinti, Giovanni Mayer, Eyal Mayoz, Jim Pugliese, Nicole Federici, Mauro Pagani, Ron Anderson, Francesco Cafiso, Dan Kinzelman, Emilio Galante, Simone Zanchini, LIisa Mezzacappa, Kyoko Kitamura, Gabriele Mirabassi, Tellef Ogrim, Trevor Brown, Alessandro Vicard, Michael Fisher, the dancers Cinzia Scordia, Melaku Belay, Jennifer Cabrera and Florence La Porte , the visual artist Fred Gautnier, the writers collectif Wu Ming, and the writer Andrea Inglese. He was a promoter of Bassesfere Collective, and is currently involved with the association Improvvisatore Involontario. He has performed at several international music festivals, including in France, Rumania. Croatia, Slovenia. Bosnia/Herzegovina. Serbia. Holland. Germany. Austria. Hungary. Norway. Spain. Belgium. Denmark. Usa. He leads: the trio F. CUSA”SKRUNCH”(ACOUSTIC and ELECTRIC), the trio THE ASSASSINS, the ensembles “THE NAKED MUSICIANS”, and of the live soundtracking project for the movies “SOLOMOVIE” plays Buster Keaton. He is also the co-leader of SKINSHOUT (Gaia Mattiuzzi/F.Cusa), JARUZELSKI’S DREAM (Piero Bittolo Bon/Stefano Senni, F.Cusa), TRY TRIO (Nicola Fazzini/Gabriele Evangelista/F.Cusa),THE BODY HAMMER, SWITTERS (Gebbia/Vasi/Cusa), MANSARDA, WAR DUO (Marcello Di Lorenzo/F.Cusa), MANCUSA (Giovanni Mancuso, Francesco Cusa). He is a member of the following groups: TRINKLE TRIO, (feat. Michel Godard), PAOLO SORGE “Jazz Waiters” (Sorge, Senni, Cattano, Cusa), HOMAGE A STANLEY KUBRICK (Manzoni, Campobasso, Senni, Cusa), ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY (Marco Cappelli, Luca Lo Bianco, Cusa), YALIB (Gianni Gebbia, Luca Lo Bianco, Cusa), TAN T’IEN TRIO (Luca Dell’Anna, Ivo Barbieri, Cusa). He also wrote books of novels. He also wrote for the rewiews “Lapis”, and “Cultura Complementibile”. from http://www.francescocusa.it
