Italian drummer/percussionist and composer (1949 - 2013 Roma, Italy).
Marcello Vento began his career in the rock Roman quintet Albero Motore. In 1976 he took part in a tour in Africa, becoming part of the Canzoniere del Lazio which, founded in 1972 with the aim of faithfully re-proposing popular songs from central Italy, was subsequently considered historically among the greatest examples of progressive folk in Italy, especially for the elaborations of the second half of the seventies. With the Canzoniere del Lazio he recorded and released 2 albums in the two-year period 1977/78. In 1978 Vento featureded in the progressive Mediterranean folk album, Carnascialia. He later had a long career as a jazz musician and drum teacher (he also collaborated with Antonello Venditti and Loredana Bertè), until his work with Jenny Sorrenti, in the first decade of the 2000s, who also enhanced his compositional and arranging qualities.