Paolo started studying the trumpet at the age of eleven with his hometown band. After different musical experiences, in 1980 he discovered Jazz and started playing professionally in 1982 recording for RAI under the guidance of M° Bruno Tommaso and attending Seminaries at Siena Jazz. In 1984 he graduated in trumpet at Cagliari Conservatory and in the same year won Musica jazz as Best Italian Jazz Talent. Professor and responsible for various national and international institutions, Paolo has performed in each continent with the most important names of afro-american music of the last 30 years: Franco D'Andrea, Giovanni Tommaso, Bruno Tommaso, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Enrico Pieranunzi, Giorgio Gaslini, Gianluigi Trovesi, Aldo Romano, Glen Ferris, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen, Gerry Mulligan, David Liebman, Dave Holland, Richard Beirach, John Zorn, John Abercrombie, Helen Merril, Ralph Towner, Richard Galliano, Michel Portal, Trilok Gurtu, Jeanne Lee, Gunther Schüller, Paul McCandless, Jim Hall,Lew Soloff, Uri Caine, Gil Evans Orchestra, Toots Thielemans, Omar Sosa, Carla Bley, and Steve Swallow. He has recorded nearly three hundred records some in his name, others with Michael Nyman, Evan Parker, Farafina, Ornella Vanoni, Alice, Gunther Schüller, Negramaro, Stadio. He has often been a guest in orchestras such as 'Grande Orchestra Italiana', French National Jazz Orchestra, NDR of Hamburg German Radio and the Italian Instabile Orchestra. He has coordinated many multimedia projects, cooperating with actors, dancers, painters, sculptures, poets, ecc., and has written musics for films, documentaries, viedeos, ballets and theatre pieces. At present he is in involved in numerous projects, which take him all over the world for more than 200 concerts a year. He lives between Paris, Bologna and Sardegna and directs the Cultural Association Time in Jazz in Berchidda, with which he has organized the prestigious festival since 1998.