Gianfranco Chiarini (born January 8, 1966) is an Italian celebrity chef, food engineer, television personality and restaurateur. His career ranges from Michelin starred restaurants, cruise lines, deluxe hotels and resorts, restaurateur, consultancy chef, TV chef, chef to presidents and royalty, research and development chef for the mass manufacturing food companies across Europe, Middle East and Africa, food technology applications chef, culinary teacher and book writer. In addition, Chiarini speaks seven languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Arabic. These varieties of languages have made him an intercultural chef, permitting him to cross over to many countries and culinary styles internationally.
Early life
Gianfranco Chiarini was born in Ferrara, Italy, and raised in a multicultural environment with Italian-Colombian origins, growing up between Italy, Venezuela and the United States.
Personal life
On September 7, 2010 Chiarini married Anna Kinga Chiarini, a nutritionist chef and Italian literature graduate, born in Słupsk, Poland. The couple share a partnership in a culinary consultancy company Chiarini Culinary Consultants that has opened more than 200 restaurants in over 100 countries. They live currently in their 2 acres farm in Bulgaria which is concurrently the site of their newest gourmet sustainable and boutique restaurant named Dieci
Music career
Chiarini played music on his earlier years, first as a rock singer in pubs and nightclubs opening for American rock bands. When Chiarini grew weary of his rock music career he became a singer with the award winning latin-pop music band Barranco Mix. This band was widely known across the Spanish, and English speaking countries in the Americas and Europe. The band played in the Johnny Canales show in Corpus Christi, Texas with the legendary queen of tejano, Selena and contemporary rock band Maná. Barranco also became the opening band at the Feria de Cali in Colombia where many celebrities from the Salsa music world performed. In 1994 the band won three Ronda Awards and were nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards. The band also was awarded Double Platinum recognition for exceeding a million sales in the United States, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. The band has had recording contracts with Polygram Latino in the United States and North America, Sonolux in Colombia, Sonografica in Venezuela. Chiarini performed as one of the lead vocalists of the band from 1993 – 1996. He then retired from his music career and returned to pursuing his career as a chef.