. >> in the south of italy in a village called franco miskano, the town is lodger than the town is bigit is a small town in the camapna region. very agricultural. >> rose: made his way to london. >> to london. >> rose: and then to connecticut. >> and then to connecticut. >> rose: so the english you speak is a product of part of your boyhood? >> yes we moved to america when i was 13, yes. >> rose: and music by that time was what you wanted? >> i was -- i started taking piano lessons at the age of six. we had a piano in the house and it was just the thing to do, and my father sort of forced, forcefully encouraged me to take piano lessons so i did it like every young kid i was out playing football and getting up to god knows what. and, yeah, football was a passion, it was a real passion, but then i had a certain facility for the music and, you know,. >> rose: for the piano? >> yes, i wasn't great or anything but i kept going at it and by the age of ten or so, i was good enough to start playing for his students and then really, you know, after school i would go to my father's studio and we