“Seeing friends and heroes of mine having their solos plagiarized broke my heart”: Giacomo Turra used their solos note-for-note for his own viral content. Now the guitarists who had their playing “stolen” are speaking out

Allegations that social media guitarist Giacomo Turra has been stealing songs for viral content gained traction earlier this week – and now guitar players who had their work appropriated have begun speaking out.

Last Friday, YouTuber Danny Sapko posted a video to his channel titled, ‘I caught this famous Instagram musician STEALING songs’, in which he scrutinizes Turra’s content and accuses the popular funk and R&B guitarist of repurposing pieces and selling tabs to compositions from other creators as his own without due credit.