Anglo-Italian singer-songwriter-guitarist. As a teenager was the prime mover of an underground rock scene in Italy in the early 1980s with the name of Rob Leer, and his band The Electric Kids.  He appeared on several TV and radio programs, and in the film Primi Amori (dir: Mimmo Rafele, RAI, Italy, 1984). His concerts were known as focal points for the counter-culture and disaffected youth. He has been based in London since 1985. In the 1990s performed solo & acoustic all over Europe and the US, playing Dobro steel guitar and harmonica, receiving great press reviews for memorable performances at Blues Festivals in the UK. His music shows the influence of the urban rock music of The Velvet Underground, and The Stooges. His acoustic material is an original and contemporary version of the Mississippi Delta Blues tradition, as on the album When My Train Comes, 1995. Much of his later studio material has been recorded single-handed, with Caruso singing and playing guitars, bass, piano, organ, drums and harmonica (albums "Ecce Homo", 2007, and Godspeed, 2009). Reviews of his live shows have described him as charismatic and his music often mesmerizing and hypnotic. His songwriting and persona are linked to the image of the bohemian artist who struggles against conventions and materialism, and show the influence of the literature of Romanticism, Decadentism and Symbolist poetry, sometimes with Gothic and Psychedelic overtones. His songs often deal with themes such as alienation and life in post-modern cities, and a desire for transcendence through love, spirituality and drugs. A wide view of his work can be found on his fanclub website. www.robertcaruso.it