About
Beginnings
Hi, I’m Roberto, aka Jaylan 🙂
I was born near Paris in an Italian family who loved music. I could hear one different genre in every room: pop, classical, jazz, country, rock… As a child, I soaked it all up without realising it, like a sponge, just like the music in the TV series I devoured and the video games I played.
At 14, fascinated by my older brother’s guitar playing, I took it upon myself to learn to play the instrument. I wrote my first songs.
Songs
At 18, I formed a rock band, composing, singing and playing guitar. We performed live on stage. When the group split up, I continued as a solo artist and wrote a number of songs.
At 21, I sent my demo tapes to Polydor, a french record company. The artistic director, Hubert Blanc-Francard, listened to them and gave me ‘carte blanche’ to record my songs in the label’s studio. The sound engineer who was assisting me introduced me to computer assisted music. It was a real eye-opener.
I equipped myself with a home studio and explored musical composition from this new angle. I developed my skills as a composer/arranger for other artists and then took my first steps into music for film, which appealed to me greatly.
Music for films, stage performances & video games
I became a member of an association of composers, LEMA, and contributed my compositions to thematic albums produced by the association for the musical illustration of audiovisual productions. Other composers included Guillaume Roussel, the future composer of the soundtrack to the film ‘Les trois mousquetaires’ (2023), who was 16 at the time.
I then composed for institutional films, event-based stage performances and video games. My clients included Bouygues, Claridge, La Française des Jeux and Nagui for his ‘Nagui et Manu’ radio show on Virgin Radio.
I’ve also composed for short films, including ‘Super-hero Blues’, a series of stop-motion animated films that I directed myself and which won 12 awards at short film festivals, including a Grand Jury Prize, as well as 12 nominations and a selection for the educational programme at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival. One episode was mentioned in the press (Télérama, Sud-Ouest and La République), was broadcast on TV (Canal+, C8) and two episodes were screened continuously at the Grand Palais as part of the ‘Des jouets et des hommes’ exhibition (2011).
These three films have racked up 400,000 views on Youtube (March 2025 data).
At the same time, I composed for the theatre, for film documentaries and for independent video games, adapting each time to the universe and requirements of the different formats.
Style
As a fan of great film composers (notably Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Danny Elfman), I have specialised in orchestral music, but without getting confined to it. I adapt to the needs and atmosphere required by the productions, always striving to support or reinforce the emotions aroused by the image.
Strengths
Creative, fast-working and enthusiastic, I approach each new project with total commitment, always ready to give the best of myself with energy and freshness, and to adapt to the demands of the project.