The highly likeable, quick-witted and extremely funny Gino Fabbri is a comedian, singer, impersonator, master of accents, quick-witted master of ceremonies, voice-over artist, zany cabaret performer and drummer extraordinaire. Bringing out the funny side of life through his many hilarious characters, Gino moves from stand-up comedy to cabaret performer to dance party instigator with equal impact.

Performing in no less than 18 different Centrestage shows, Gino has both the wit and experience to handle any audience.

As zany MC in character, Gino assists in breaking down the formality of proceedings by immediately invigorating functions with in infectious sense of fun. If Gino is involved, anything can happen and even the most boring of programs is livened up with his irreverent comedy.

Gino is often added to Centrestage lineups to add the comedy elements - as a singer he goes right into the audience, invites participation and ensures variety and plenty of laughs.

So it is that fake Latin Lover Minuto Peniso woos the ladies (or at least he thinks he does) and Bookie and Bollywood Talent Scout Rancid Punjabi teaches the audience to do the Bangra.

Rear Admiral Winifred Rump is as British as ever until he has had a few toots, Lejeandrevonne Rensburg is a highly incompetent and camp failed events co-ordinator, Austin Powers is ever the ladies man, Gotisa Whiti is a pale SA equivalent of Ali G and Summurai Warrior Yakimoto Katyorarmi battles with his aggression issues.

The characters sing songs which invariably gets the audience clapping and joining in, as in the case of Russian defector Vladimir Kockoff, who teaches the audience how to do the Cossak dance, whether they like it or not! In the realm of stand-up comedy, Gino uses sporting characters such as the extremely intelligently challenged and critically stage-fright-struck rugby player Elvis Kroukamp, who finds himself having to deliver an off-the-cuff talk on the "paraletics between life and rugby", to bring the house down every time.

His golfing character, caddie Gatiep Williams, is a scream for any sports-loving audience.

Gino is also much loved and extremely effective for ladies functions, where his unthreatening, likeable persona's always prove to be a hit.

Gino started his move from drummer to comedian when he headed up the Centrestage Austin Powers spoof Awesome Powers: For Your Thighs Only - where he also played the dual role of ladies man Awesome Powers and megalomaniac Dr Evil.

Fabbri's spot-on comic timing, natural sense of humour and knack for comedic portrayal were unanimously praised by critics.

Fabbri then fronted the popular That Rollicking Rock n Roll show (backing tracks version), again playing fun musical comedy characters - taking the mickey out of Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, David Kramer and Mick Jagger, amongst others.

Gino then teamed up with the sexy Tara-Jane Metzler, to form a very popular musical comedy duo. Gino and Tara perform both the cabaret show and the dance section of the entertainment at corporate functions throughout the country.

In the Centrestage musical murder mystery spoof The Unusual Suspects, he effortlessly introduced a range of personalities and characters and swapped costumes and personas in the blink of an eye. Here they were joined by theatre stalward Clifford Klebb to take off the Mickey Spillaine style of detective movies.

Gino and Tara's most recent theatrical outing, The Libido Loco Roadshow, once more extends the characters available to them to entertain an audience. This time, fun is poked at the nature of consumerism and the gimmicks and delusions that are employed to market products in a product-launch in which everything goes disastrously wrong. This particular show can be adapted as a unique and refreshing way to launch a product.

Gino excels as one of the best drummers in the country & his role in each function is adapted specifically to ensure compliance with the theme or mood of the function.

Catch him doing Mick Jagger to perfection in the Magnificent 7 show.

As an entertainer he is generous and talented and always leaves an audience wanting more!