Background
Caccese was born in Naples, Italy, but his family moved several times within the country, only to later relocate back in 2001.
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Andrea Caccese
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Andrea showed very little, if any, interest in school, focusing instead on listening to music and scribbling lyrics and poems during lessons. The interest in music became prominent as the young Caccese became heavily inspired by punk rock music to start playing guitar and singing. The budding musician was a part of few high school bands before starting in late 2007.
Current life After barely getting through mandatory education, Caccese quit University to focus on music on a full-time basis.
His former band,, managed to release two albums and tour most of Europe within 2007 and 2010, before splitting up for good. Caccese got briefly involved in the recording project U.A.R. shortly after the end of his former band and worked as a freelance production assistant and columnist for Neapolis Festival, FreakOut Magazine and other establishments.
Having traveled extensively throughout Europe, Caccese eventually relocated to Sweden in 2010, where he began to perform as a solo artist under the moniker, exploring genres such as folk, post-rock and experimental popular. Andrea Caccese was the main songwriter, singer and guitarist in his former band,, active from late 2007 until late 2010.
The group released an album ( – The less you know, the more you live – Songcast ) and an European Parliament (The Fall – Sit Still Promotion). broke up in 2010, a few months after releasing their last European Parliament. With the help of Swedish cellist Nadja Ali, Caccese developed the European Parliament into a full-length album, Our Rehearsed Spontaneous Reactions adopting as a moniker.
Membership
In late 2011, Caccese became a founding member of alternative rock group I Used To Be A Sparrow alongside Swedish musician Dick Pettersson.
