Italian guitar player, engineer and producer.
In 2013 was nominated at 12th Independent MUSIC AWARDS with
his first soloist album Raighes Vol 1 (Cat. Best Instrumental album).
He plays pretty much anything and everything with strings,
including acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel, dobro,
Weissenborn, banjo and bouzouki.
Brought up in Sardinia healthy doses of Rock and local roots
music, Roberto moved to Milan at a young age to work with Pietro
Nobile and Donato Begotti.
Since then, Roberto has played literally hundreds of gigs.
Also, he has established a solid reputation in the studio, having worked both as an engineer and a producer on more than
30 recording projects with international artists such as Will T. Massey, Steve Lukather, Tony Levin, Vinnie Colaiuta,
Frank Gambale, Dean Parks, Brian Ray, Pietro Nobile, JP Cervoni, Simon Phillips, James Raymond, Linda, Amanda
Shires, Rachel Z, Joey Huffman, Richard Hunter, Mike Slo-Mo Brenner, Chris Cacavas and many more.
In September 2012 he released his first solo record “Raighes Vol 1” (“Roots” in the Sardinian language) rated as one of
the best instrumental album of the year for the music magazines/webzines: Mescalina.it (IT), Buscadero (IT),
Akustik Gitarren (DE), Guitar Club (IT), The Real Roots Café (NL) , R2 (UK) and others.
The record was also nominated at the 12th Independent Music Awards (cat. Best Insrumental Album)
He toured “Raighes Vol. 1 Solo Tour” Internationally (Scotland, Luxembourg, UK, Galles, and Italy) .
Since 2008 Roberto plays with roots rock band Lowlands and, to date, has recorded five albums with them, also touring
internationally with the band. Roberto co-produced all three albums with bandleader Edward Abbiati and also played
Weissenborn, lap Steel, electric, acoustic and slide guitar.
In 2011 he played on and co-produced with Edward Abbiati the album “Fathers & Sons” for Scottish folk duo Donald
and Jen MacNeill and played on the subsequent tour. The album received a 5 star review from R2 magazine in England.
In the same year he released a limited edition CD consisting of rough tracks from his forthcoming solo album “Raighes
Vol 1”.
Roberto has been invited to play at some of the most important trade fairs in the
world, including the NAMM Show (Los Angeles), MusikMesse (Francoforte), Disma ,
SHG (Milano), ADGPA Italy and Acoustic Guitars International Meeting (Sarzana).
Demonstrator of different brands of guitar tools (Elixir Strings, FretKing,
Reference Laboratoy Cables, MN Guitars and Anderwood Guitars Weissenborn)
The lutherie, MN Guitars, has built a "Twilight 001/09 Roberto Diana Signature
guitar”, which was presented for the first time in Los Angeles at NAMM ‘09.
Roberto is a subtle yet powerful guitarist, equally at ease in both electric and
acoustic settings. His personal musical style infuses classic guitar virtuosity with a
rock n roll sensibility, making for an exciting and enthralling listen.