A well-known Roman rapper posted a touching post on Instagram to announce the death of his older brother. Various fans, along with prominent names in the world of national hip hop and famous personalities of the Italian music scene, gather around him.
He was called Fabio and he was fifty-nine years old. And he was the elder brother of a very famous rappera historical name of the Roman music scene. Moved, the artist greeted his brother who recently passed away on social media with a dedication very moving, in which he quoted some verses taken from one of the many books dedicated to the search for himself of which the deceased was the author.
Fabio was in fact one prolific writera passionate scholar of cultural anthropology and spirituality, and a poet. In addition to devoting himself to the study of esotericism and mystical traditions, he wrote about life lived, on the peripheries, about mystical journeys, ancient mythologies and ethology. The work mentioned in the dedication by the rapper brother is entitled Tibetan texts on the journey after death.
Fabio Zanello was the older brother of Tommaso Zanelloin art er Piottaone of the fathers of Italian hip hop and a well-known character in the mainstream for his late 90s hit Supercafone.
And if Tommaso has always been a champion of music, a producer in search of transversal sounds and suggestions and a very famous rap language experimenter in Italy, Fabio was perhaps better known abroad. He was in fact appreciated for his studies on texts by René Guénon, Ananda C. Coomaraswamy and Titus Burckhardt. In Italy, the writer had many publications of various subjects to his credit, all of them quite interesting.
In his social announcement, the rapper and record producer from Rome wrote: “For many you were the Professor. Just to me you were my big brother. With all the love I can“.
The rapper’s greeting to his brother writer
After the message appeared on his social network, er Piotta wanted to quote some words borrowed from a text by Fabio. Here they are: “First the earth dissolves in water, then the water dissolves in fire. Fire dissolves in the air, and the air then dissolves in consciousness. That same consciousness then enters the Chiara Luce“.
Born in 1963 in Rome, Fabio had a degree in Literature from the La Sapienza University of Rome. In addition to the aforementioned esoteric studies on René Guénon, he had published many in Italy stories in various magazines.
Among his publications we point out: Secret Taoism (Castelvecchi, 2005), Muhammad’s Dog (Alternative Press, 2005), If you are not happy it is all your fault. The booklet of Tibetan proverbs (Alternative Press, 2009), Sufi speeches (Alternative Press, 2007), The Tao of Sweet and Hard (Rabbit, 2008).
It’s still: The supreme knowledge of the Buddha (Nettle publishing, 2016), The Society of the Bear. The spirituality of the North American Indians (UTET-De Agostini, 2016), Yongjia Xuanjue, The Song of Enlightenment (Nettle, 2017), Zen and the Art of Killing the Mind (Nettle, 2018), Love rude (Nettle, 2020), The nectar of the Self (Nettle, 2021).
We advise you to get one of his books in Roman dialect: ‘Na botta infamousalso published by Ortica.