A self-taught drummer, Roberto was teaching drums and playing with professionals at the age of eightteen.

In the '70s he drummed with artists such as Pino Daniele, Romano Mussolini, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Dexter Gordon, and Buck Clayton (Count Basie's orchestra). Roberto was a member also of the Amedeo Tommasi trio with Piero Montanari.

It is said that in 1977 Roberto went to look for the original factory of the historic handmade Zildjian K cymbal series of plates in Istanbul, Turkey. But when he arrivied, he found it closed. That's when he decided to create his own.

This decision became the turning point in his career and his life.

After several years Roberto had established himself as one of the best craftsmen in this area, creating cymbal sounds very similar to the old K's.

In 1988 he started to collaborate with Robert Bespeco, and marketed a variety of cymbals made ​​in China, without his control or his approval, called "Wuhan Spizza". Cymbals with this label aren't produced by Roberto, which instead were signed with "R. Spizzichino".

After working for four years for Ufip, Roberto moved to Pescia, near Pistoia in Tuscany in 1991 where he founded his own workshop in the hills.

That's where Roberto "Spizz" Spizzichino spent the rest of his life realizing his dream: to transform amorphous metal into beautiful works of art with his bear hands, in search of the perfect sound.

Roberto is leaving a heritage of many masterpieces of sound experimentation loved by drummers around the world.