Luca Legnani is an Italian producer, noted art collector, former dancer, and one-time TV cop.

Biography

He has done music videos for Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

, Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

, Fabri Fibra

Fabri Fibra

Fabri Fibra is an Italian rapper.- Biography :Tarducci was born in Senigallia, Marche. He became interested in music from a young age; he wrote and performed his first piece when he was 17 years old....

, Cor Veleno, The Rain

The Rain

The Rain were the Manchester band that eventually evolved into Oasis. The band formed in Manchester, England in 1991, getting their name from The Beatles' B-side, "Rain". Founding members were Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan , Chris Hutton , and a drum machine...

, Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti , known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Ramazzotti is enormously popular in Italy, and is well known in most non-English-speaking European countries and in the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both...

, Stateless

Stateless (band)

Stateless are an English electronic alternative rock band, founded in 2002 and based in Leeds. The group comprises Chris James , kidkanevil , Justin Percival and David Levin .Stateless earned a recording contract with Sony Music and released their first single "Down Here" in 2004...

, Geri Halliwell

Geri Halliwell

Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell is an English pop singer-songwriter, author and actress. After coming to international prominence in the late 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, Halliwell launched her solo career in 1998 and released her album Schizophonic...

, Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani is the lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. The album was inspired by music of the 1980s, and was a success with sales of over...

, Planet Funk

Planet Funk

Planet Funk is an Italian electronic dance musical ensemble.Members are Sergio Della Monica, Alex Neri, Domenico GG Canu, Marco Baroni, Alex Uhlmann and Alessandro Sommella , in addition to a series of guest singers in collaboration, like Dan Black, Sally Doherty, Raiz and John Graham...

, Gianluca Grignani, Katie Price and Peter Andre

Peter André

Peter James Andrea , better known by the stage name as Peter Andre, is an English-born Australian musician, singer-songwriter, television personality and businessman. As a recording artist, he has achieving four top 10 UK albums and ten top 10 singles.-Early life:Andre was born at Northwick Park...

, and many more. For many years, he produced music videos, commercials, and TV content for the prominent Italian production company, Filmmaster. In 2007, he opened up an independent production house, Pines Films Limited, based in central London.

He is a noted art collector, as well as a former curator at Bocconi University

Bocconi University

Bocconi University is a private university located in central Milan, beside Parco Ravizza. Bocconi provides undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education, in addition to a range of double degree programs, in the fields of economics, management, finance and law. According to many university...

 with Luca Martinazzoli.

Notable Recent Projects

In 2007, Legnani produced "Help Lorenzo," a project to help Italian film director Lorenzo Bassano who was jailed in Dubai for possession of a ridiculous amount of hashish

Hashish

Hashish is a cannabis preparation composed of compressed stalked resin glands, called trichomes, collected from the unfertilized buds of the cannabis plant. It contains the same active ingredients but in higher concentrations than unsifted buds or leaves...

. This effort included a free concert in Milan with performances by Elio e Le Storie Tese

Elio e le Storie Tese

Elio e le Storie Tese , often abbreviated EelST, is an Italian band from Milan, formed in 1980, whose music is clearly inspired to the style of Frank Zappa, both in music and lyrics...

, Cor Veleno, Grandi Animali Marini, Le Vibrazioni

Le Vibrazioni

Le Vibrazioni is an Italian rock and pop band formed in Milan in 1999 that is still active. Its albums were issued by BMG.They made their breakthrough in 2003 with their debut single Dedicato a te, which went platinum....

, Fabri Fibra

Fabri Fibra

Fabri Fibra is an Italian rapper.- Biography :Tarducci was born in Senigallia, Marche. He became interested in music from a young age; he wrote and performed his first piece when he was 17 years old....

, Club Dogo

Club Dogo

Club Dogo is an Italian rap group from Milan that consists of the rappers Guè Pequeno and Jake La Furia, and the beatmaker Don Joe.- Sacre Scuole :...

, Coolio

Coolio

Artis Leon Ivey Jr. , better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American musician, rapper, actor and record producer.-Late 80s:He recorded two singles in the late 80s, titled "Watcha Gonna Do" and "You're Gonna Miss Me"...

, J Ax

J Ax

Alessandro Aleotti, known as J-Ax, is an Italian rapper, former singer in the rap group Articolo 31 with his DJ Luca Perrini...

, The Styles and more. The concert was supported by Radio DeeJay.

In 2008, Legnani became producer for Check-In Architecture, a cultural research project that's developing a cultural map of Europe, partnered with Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

, which includes 300 short documentaries created by students and renowned cultural producers including Andrew Berardini

Andrew Berardini

Andrew Berardini is an American art critic, writer, and curator of contemporary art. He has published articles and essays in publications such as frieze, Mousse, Fillip, Artforum, X-TRA, Artnet, La Stampa, Paper Monument, Angeleno, Art Review, Style and the Family Tunes , Rolling Stone , Art Lies,...

, Olivia Fincato, Christophe Tassin, Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon is an independent filmmaker from Paris mainly known for his field work music videos of indie rock related musicians as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones, R.E.M. or Arcade Fire. Besides making music videos he also makes experimental films and documentaries...

, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Ed Rutherford, Giovanna Silva, Filippo Romano, Andrea Lissioni, Luca Martinazoli, Luca Molinari, Francesco Fei and Mario Benini. Also included is a free press magazine, a blog, and starting in April 2008, the project was shown on the Urban Screen, a 148 meter video screen overlooking Piazza Duomo

Duomo

Duomo is a term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral . Some, like the Duomo of Monza, have never been cathedrals, although old and important...

 in central Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

.

In 2008 worked as line producer on the Award Winning short movie Aftervillehttp://www.aftervillethemovie.com, directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro and starring Giorgia Würth, Roberto Laureri, Paolo Giangrasso and David Traylor

David Traylor

David Traylor was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Devon. He was born in Torquay.Traylor, who made his Minor Counties debut in 1968, made his only List A appearance the following season, in the 1969 Gillette Cup, against Herefordshire...

. The movie has been produced by BB Productions and FastForward, in association with FIlmmaster Clip.

In summer 2009 has filmed as executive producer on War Games: At the End of the Day

War Games: At the End of the Day

War Games: At the End of the Day is a 2010 Independent thriller film directed by acclaimed Italian director Cosimo Alema, who co-wrote it with Daniele Persica and Romana Meggiolaro. Luca Legnani is credited as executive producer. The film is distributed by Universal Pictures...

, the first feature film of director Cosimo Alema

Cosimo Alemà

-Biography:Cosimo Alemà began working in music videos in the early '90s, and after several years as an assistant director, he founded his own production company "The Mob". He has directed some 250 music videos for Italian and foreign artists...

, starring Andrew Harwood Mills

Andrew Harwood Mills

-Early life and career:Andrew Harwood Mills began acting at The Angles Theatre, Wisbech where he starred as the Tin Man in The Wiz. He has appeared in numerous other theatrical productions including Guys and Dolls, The Laramie Project and Merrily We Roll Along at the Sherman Cymru, Cardiff. He...

, Sam Cohanhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm2079894/, Michael Lutzhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584167/, Stephanie Chapman Baker and Neil Linpow

Neil Linpow

-Early life and career:Neil grew up in Bournemouth and was a talented football player having played at schoolboy level for both Bournemouth and Portsmouth. After a series of ankle injuries he chose to attend drama school and pursue a career in acting.-Screen work:...

 among others. The movie has been made under the executive production of The Mob

The Mob

The Mob may refer to:* The Mafia, an Italian organized crime secret society* The American Mafia, an offshoot of the Italian Mafia and also an organized crime secret society* Irish Mob, the first organized crime group for which the term was used...

 and will be release in Italian cinemas on July 22, 2011 by Bolero Filmhttp://www.bolerofilm.it/attheendoftheday.html. The film has been proved very successful in the international market and will be distributed throughout Europe by Universal Picture, in Australia by Transmission and in Japan by Nikkatsu among many other.

Legnani was also the director behind the YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

sleeper hit, "Trovami Un Modo Semplice Per Uscirne" (trans. "Find Me an Easy Way to Get Out of It").