Evio Di Marzo
Evio Di Marzo
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About Evio Di Marzo
Evio Di Marzo Migani was born on May 23, 1954, in Rome, Italy. He was the son of Vincenzo Di Marzo and Silvana Migani, who later emigrated to Venezuela. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by his older brother, the renowned singer-songwriter Yordano. At the age of 11, he began playing the drums, developing his musical talent mostly as a self-taught musician, with formal academic support only from maestro Gerry Weil. At 13, he joined his brother in the band “Ford Rojo 1954,” which later became “Sietecueros,” a group formed by students of the Faculty of Architecture at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). By the late 1970s, he began working with musicians from the Sarría neighborhood in La Candelaria, leading to the creation of the group that defined his career: Adrenalina Caribe. This ensemble blended tropical and Caribbean styles with urban influences, becoming one of the leading bands of the 1980s in Venezuela. Evio Di Marzo graduated as an anthropologist from the Central University of Venezuela in 1980. Between 1988 and 1991, he taught at the UCV School of Sociology, where he led the elective course “Anthropology of Death and Technological Development.” As a musician, he was a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, drums, keyboards), and performer, both with his own group and in recordings for other artists and television productions. With Adrenalina Caribe, he released four albums between 1982 and 1990: Pico y Pala (1982), Adrenalina Caribe (1985), Evio Di Marzo – Adrenalina Caribe (1987), and Bio Bio (1990). In the 1990s, Di Marzo embraced Islam as a way of life and adopted a more austere lifestyle, reflecting a deep spiritual search. In 1999, he founded a new band called Kinteto Zalvaje, with which he alternated performances alongside Adrenalina Caribe. Beyond music, Di Marzo was also an entrepreneur. He founded a series of restaurants called Evio’s Pizza, initially in Los Palos Grandes and later near Plaza Bolívar, which also became bohemian cultural spaces. On May 28, 2018, while resisting an attempted car theft in Caracas, he was fatally shot. Evio Di Marzo left behind a legacy of original music influenced by Caribbean rhythms, romantic and socially engaged lyrics, as well as his contributions to academia, spirituality, and community life.
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