kshatriya

Biography

Kshatriya was found in 1997 in Pozzallo, a small town of the Southern Sicilian Coast with the purpose of spreading out a personal and unique vision of music.

In 1998 the founder Massimo Sapienza leaves the island to enrole at the University of Music in Bologna looking for musicians to join his band named after the Indian Caste of the Truth Guardians. In 2002 the decisive encounter with Marco Zichitella, he soon joins the band as singer and keyboards player as well as composer.

In 2003 Kshatriya takes part to the Emergenza Rock Festival presenting their first progressive rock work called “The Inner Journey”, the band enters into the final of the competition and performes at the Arena Parco Nord in Bologna. After that the band is engaged in a tour throughout the main Sicilian cities.

Back in Bologna the band plays live in many venues all over Northern Italy. From 2004 until 2006 Kshatriya ventures into extemporaneous live music gigs.

In 2007 after a new lineup Nicolasi Luca(bassguitar) and Tancredi Edoardo(drum), Kshatriya turns back to their progressive musical roots and gives birth to their latest work named “The Dream”.

Right now the band is in session recording for their third work named “Dodecaphonic”.