Leo Moracchioli (born 10 October 1978 in Ålgård) is a Norwegian musician. He is known for his metal covers of popular songs, which have gained him over 4.5 million followers on YouTube as Frog Leap Studios.[1][2]
For each video, Moracchioli creates the arrangements, and plays all the instruments, except for a small number of songs in which he has collaborated with other instrumentalists; they often require at least 50 tracks.[1] Although most of the videos feature only himself, and sometimes his family or a musical guest—sometimes a fellow YouTube artist participating remotely—for his video cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" he was joined by Drowning Pool guitarist C. J. Pierce. The video was filmed in a nightclub and included hired backup dancers.[8]
He sometimes tours internationally with his band Frog Leap (studios).[8][9] On 3 August 2019, he was at the 30th Anniversary of Wacken Open Air with the band.[10]
The Frog Leap band members are Leo Moracchioli (vocals and guitar), Hannah Boulton (female vocals), Erik Torp (bass), Rabea Massaad (guitar), Truls Haugen (vocals and drums).