Licia Missori

Licia Missori (born in Rome, Italy) is an Italian pianist, keyboardist, composer, songwriter and music producer. Her work spans a diverse array of genres, ranging from classical music to rock and dark wave, as well as symphonic metal, Celtic fusion and video game music. Trained a classical pianist from the age of five, Also, she has toured alongside film actor Giancarlo Giannini in Italian theaters. In 2010, Missori founded the alternative rock band The Dark Side of Venus, for which she is a songwriter, composer, pianist, and keyboardist. The band won the Italian Opening Band Live Music Festival 2011, opening Paolo Benvegnù’s concert in Trieste in the same year. In 2012, The Dark Side of Venus released the single Dirty Paradise, which was produced by Novembre’s guitarist Massimiliano Pagliuso. In 2016, the band released the album Power to Victims, its cover featuring a black and white photograph of Missori’s hands and forearms wrapped in chains, shot by Italian fashion photographer . In the following year, The Dark Side of Venus toured with Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Sirenia, and The Birthday Massacre. Missori is currently also a member of the Celtic fusion band Green Clouds as pi