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Paolo Rustichelli is an Italian-American smooth jazz pianist and composer, son of Carlo Rustichelli and Evy Levi. He has composed the musical scores of numerous Italian films since the early 1970s. He studied composition at the Accademia Chigiana.

His 1996 Mystic Man featured Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Andy Summers, and Jill Jones, the song Paisa reachign the Top Ten on the Radio & Records Smooth Jazz/NAC charts. His 2006 Neopagan album is associated with a larger project of eclectic Neopaganism ([1] neopagan.com). In a 2006 interview, Rustichelli states that "[pagans] can be normal human beings in love with the earth and trying to respect it. I want to communicate that despite any difference in spiritual beliefs, we are all in some ways on the same path." .