songwriter, guitar player, producer



Alex De Rosso's passion for rock guitar began in1982 in Padova, Italy.

In 1995 Alex entered the international scenewhen Alfa Brunette released in Japan "Alex De Rosso", his self titledcd. In the same year "Music Connection" rated Alex's demo as one ofthe best 10 demos of the year, the best in instrumental rock, and he started toplay in music conventions and fairs like the Namm Show in Los Angeles, theFrankfurt Musikmesse in Germany, and the Interexpomusic & the Disma MusicShow in Italy.

In 1997 Alex started to record his second album"Ossimoro", that has been released in 1998.

In 2002, right after the release of his thirdalbum, "The thin line between black and white", Alex joined Dokkentaking over guitar duties when John Norum (Europe) left the band.

As the new Dokken guitar player, Alex toured in2002 and 2003 playing something like 100 shows.

In the middle of all this Alex recorded as leadguitar player, with producer Fabrizio Grossi, the album “Vertigo” featuringJoseph Williams (TOTO) on vocals, and the album “Perfect World” with KellyHansen (Hurricane, Foreigner) on vocals.

Back in Italy, after the Dokken days, in early2004 Alex started to work on productions @ “the cube”, his own recording studio.

In the meantime Alex started a new hard rockband, Headrush, with italian singer Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth). The first andself titled album of Headrush will be released in early 2005.

2008 is the perfect year for therelease of King of Balance “A rockwalk through the TOTO years”,

a tribute to one of the best rockbands ever and one of alex’s favourite, TOTO.

The album is produced by Alex,and many friends like Timothy Drury (Whitesnake, the Eagles) and Stef Burns(Vasco Rossi, Huey Lewis, Alice Cooper, Y&T) are involved in the project.

In 2010 Alex has been involved inmany projects, like Faithsedge and Pushking’s “The world as we love it”.

In fact alex recorded theall-star album for the russian band Pushking, a project where you can hear Alextogether with rock icons Alice Cooper, Paul Stanley (KISS), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top),Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, Eric Martin, Steve Lukather, Steve Vai, SteveStevens, Nuno Bettencourt.

After this Alex finally joinedthe band, collaborating with Pushking for live shows and the release of theirnew album.

And in 2012 finally Alex startedthe production of his long awaited fourth solo album, released in january 2013.

Many great musicians and friendsare part of “Lions & Lambs”, Alex’s ultimate work:

Don Dokken (Dokken),Reb Beach (Winger, Dokken, Whitesnake), George Lynch (Lynch Mob, Dokken),Timothy Drury (Whitesnake, the Eagles), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), SteveLukather (Toto) !!!