Francesco Fareri, born April 15, 1978 in Rome, Italy, is a guitar player, notable for his extremely fast guitar shredding style. Francesco began playing guitar when he first got an electric guitar at seventeen years old. Francesco is widely regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in the world today,[citation needed] and has found the majority of his audience through guitar based websites such as 'Shredaholic' and 'The Shred Zone'.