Born in Greve in Chianti, Florence as Aleandro Civai, blind, Baldi began playing the guitar as an autodidact while he was at the Reggio Emilia College for the Blind.
While working for Microsoft right after graduating from Sammamish High School, this autodidact spent most of his evenings and weekends modifying his car, mainly through aftermarket accessories.
Born in Wiesbaden in 1937, raised in Maxsain (Westerwald); law studies; has worked as an artist since 1957, autodidact.
An autodidact like many naturalists of the time, he specialized in the study of Microlepidoptera.
William-Olsson was after classical piano studies at Göteborg Musikhögskola (he is autodidact guitarist), the replasement for Ulf Wakenius in the Swedish fusion band Hawk on Flight, and also collaboraterd with such as Bob Berg, Lee Konitz and Palle Mikkelborg.