Born in Sussex in 1999, Carlo Villa is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer based in Kent. He began writing music seriously at 17 and was broadcast on BBC Introducing with his instrumental track entitled Thrown Together (produced by Alex Franklin).

He has since built up a strong presence across many social media platforms and retails his work through BandCamp, Apple Music and Amazon. He won the Reddit Grammy for Best Singer Songwriter 2021 for his self penned piece called Happy to Forget.

His previous albums include Typocast, In the Midst of a Lull, Short Changed, See You Tomorrow, The Cows Have Come Home and Far. He has composed several songs in the French language.

He has made a series of unplugged recordings in an old garden building entitled 'From The Potting Shed'.

He has scored several plays including 'Our Country's Good' and 'Who Cares' as well as completing an Indian inspired soundtrack for the audio book project called 'Ramayana' for Audio-verse. He has just finished producing and mastering an album of meditative music called 'Medit8 - Empower' for Ella Ringrose and Sylvia Villa.

He is currently working on music for a forth-coming new musical by Mark Tunstall called 'Kidults' which will premier in London in autumn 2024.

He is the brother of British Composer, Sylvia Villa.