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4 unusual facts about Henry Padovani


Henry Padovani

While studying Economics at Aix-en-Provence, he began listening to Jimi Hendrix and was inspired to form his own band, Lupus, made up of various school friends.

Henri Padovani (born 13 October 1952, Bastia, Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco, Haute-Corse), commonly known as Henry Padovani, is a musician from the Mediterranean French isle of Corsica, noted for being the original guitarist for The Police.

However Sting was dissatisfied with Padovani's technical abilities, paving the way for Andy Summers, whom they met after a brief tour as part of Mike Howlett's band Strontium 90.

In 1988, Miles Copeland III, the Police's manager, and elder brother of Stewart Copeland, appointed Padovani as Vice President of IRS Records, a role he performed until 1994.



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