Vittorio Riva (Napoli, 1962) received drum lessons from Luciano Gargiulo before turning professional in the 1980s. He started working with Gino Paoli in 1982, followed by many national and foreign artists such as Sugar, Giorgia, My Martini, Vecchioni, Vanoni, D' Alessio, Well-born, Concato, Toquinho, Niky Nicolai, Murolo, Zizi Possi, Netinho, De Crescenzo, De Sio, Alan Sorrenti, Paola Turci, Of Goats, Armani, Ranieri etc.



More recently Vittorio Riva has been playing with Col Marco Zurzolo, Ornella Vanoni, and with Gino Paoli again.