chickpee is the solo project of Italian musician, Chiara D’Anzieri.  She began a professional classical career as a cellist at the age of 13, a child prodigy that spent her teen years traveling from city to city in Italy performing with various orchestras and quartets but eventually decided to take a hiatus from her classical life for sake of her own mental health and wanting to explore other kinds of music and instruments.  She then spent many years as a producer/studio musician/songwriter at a major studio near her hometown of Ravenna, IT.  In June 2018, her and her partner, American musician Ron Gallo, met at a beach venue in Ravenna and have been together and making music ever since.

“IMPORTED”, coming later 2021, is her debut album as well as her first time ever writing songs and singing in English. The album was written in real-time about her experience leaving her country for the first time to move across the world, navigating the U.S. immigration process and loss of freedom and existential crisis all in the name of love. She produced and played most of the instruments on the album herself with a little assistance from drummer and engineer, Dominic Billett and her partner, Ron Gallo.