Franco "Fast Frank" Cersosimo has mediterranean origins but was born and grew up in Torino (in the north of Italy).
He starts playing guitar at the age of seventeen.In the second half of the nineties,he becomes student by Dario Lombardo-one of the most known and appreciated national blues musicians-and he plays in local Blues bands as Hot Wires,Blues Syndicate.
In 2000, with the Fast Frank and the Hot Shout Blues, he uses some collaborations of musicians coming from the Jazz-blues environment of the Turinese area; in 2004 he is among the selected for the Obiettivo Bluesin' of the Pistoia Blues Festival, and in the same year he begins his collaboration with the Dario Lombardo Blues Gang, the harmonica player Andrea Scagliarini. In 2007 he is among the artists at the Poggio Murella Blues Festival, and again in 2007 he shares the stage with artists as Slep, Dario Lombardo, Massimo Altieri in " The Night Of The Blues Guitars" of the Gilgamesh Blues Festival.
In 2008 he opens the Turinese concerts of the Afro-american (Chicago, Illinois) singer Delores Scott and Mud Morganfield (again from Chicago, Illinois, the son of the Blues legend Muddy Waters), Amar Sundy(2009), the great John Primer(2010),Larry Garner(2011).
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