Alessandro Staropoli (born 9 January 1970 in Trieste, Italy) is the keyboard player, composer and (together with Luca Turilli) co-founder of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He does the orchestral arrangements in all the band's songs.[3]
Alex and Luca met in 1990 during a course in mental techniques (how to have more control of your own mind), and together they started the band Rhapsody (later named as Rhapsody of Fire) in 1993.[3]
When Alex was a child he was mainly interested in nature - mountains, forests and lakes. At the age of nine he got his first piano and began to study its basics,[3][4] and at the age of fourteen he bought his first electric guitar. After meeting Luca, but before the creation of Rhapsody of Fire, he bought a Korg 01/W pro keyboard, a model he still uses.[