Gianni

Gianni was born on January 19, 1992, the son of an architect and a photographer, and raised in the Point Breeze part of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. His father is Christian and his mother is Jewish; Gianni was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah. Before attending Taylor Allderdice High School, Gianni attended Winchester Thurston School. In high school, Gianni decided to focus on his hip-hop career, later noting, "Once I hit 15, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely ... I used to be into sports, play all the sports, go to all the high school parties. But once I found out hip-hop is almost like a job, that's all I did." Gianni, a self-taught musician, plays piano, guitar, drums, and bass.