Andrea "Andy" Ferro (born 19 August 1973 in Arona,

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, Region of Piedmont) is an Italian singer, best known as the male vocalist and one of the founding members of Italian

gothic metal Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy meta ...

band

Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Since their formation in 1994, the group has had two name changes, being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, and they have recorded nine studio albums, two extended plays, two ...

. Ferro founded Lacuna Coil with Marco Zelati in 1994 under the name Sleep of Right (they would also use Ethereal as their band name before Lacuna Coil). The two formed the band during the winter in Zelati's house in the winter when it was "too cold to skate". At first the band covered classics with just a guitar and vocals; eventually they became more interested in music than skating, Ferro said "because of the age and the girls and all the injuries". When they met

Cristina Scabbia Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (; born 5 June 1972) is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists of gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. Scabbia used to write an advice column in the popular rock magazine ''Revolver'', alongside mus ...

and heard she could sing, they invited her to try backup vocals. Upon hearing her sing, Ferro and Zelati asked her to join the band. In 1998, Lacuna Coil released their first EP and in 1999, after the departure of Raffael Zagaria, Claudio Leo, and Leonardo Forti and the recruiting of Cristiano Migliore and Cristiano Mozzati, Lacuna Coil had their current line-up. On the songwriting for Lacuna Coil, Ferro has said that it is "a process that is always evolving" and described it as "democratic", as some of the parts that he has written Cristina adapts to her voice and sings, and some of the parts she has written, he sings. Ferro has also changed his vocal style quite a bit over time; on their earlier albums up to ''

Unleashed Memories ''Unleashed Memories'' is the second studio album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. The album was released 20 March 2001 through Century Media Records and is the first release to feature the classic lineup as Marco Biazzi joined the band ...

'', he had a tendency to use

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for many songs, but over time he began to use mostly clean vocals. His death growls return in the band's new album ''

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''. Ferro is featured in a Cayne song "Through the Ashes". He is also the featured artist in the I.P.E.R. song "Ancora in piedi". He married his longtime girlfriend, Paola Penny Gigliotti, on 8 September 2012.

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* 1973 births Alternative metal musicians Living people People from Arona, Piedmont Italian heavy metal singers English-language singers from Italy 21st-century Italian male singers {{Italy-singer-stub