His father, son of an Italian emigrant, was a music artisan. His mother was a respectable piano-teacher. She witnessed Ovidio’s beginnings as a natural player, improvising melodies at an early age to later becoming a music composer. Ovidio De Ferrari was born in Iquique in Chile, Latin America.- Ovidio, second son of three brothers, started improvising music before he was able to write properly at the age of 5. As he says, “The natural way of approaching the instrument and growing among musicians helped me to develop the ability of making music from the very beginning (Almost all his parents and relatives played the piano) “I thought the whole world played the piano…” says Ovidio.
Ovidio started giving concerts at the age of 10 as a singer and piano-accompanier of The Choir of the University of Chile, in 1965 in Arica, Chile.- At the age of 15 he got his high school diploma and came first out of 390 hopefuls. He also gained a scholarship to study music and composition in the Conservatory of Music at the University of Chile, Faculty of Arts, Santiago - Chile. During his career he has been traveling, playing and singing in 25 countries around the world.