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I-Soul-Nation Bio Edinburgh-based duo I-Soul-Nation are two musicians known locally as Shug and Dug. SHUG was born Paolo Aquilino (aka Panini Boy) in 1981 in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, in the region of Fruili Venezia Guilia, located at the foot of the Julian Alps. Aquilino comes from a well-connected and distinguished Venetian family. On his mother’s side he is a distant relation of award-winning Italian actress, Claudia Cardinale, who starred alongside Peter Sellars in Blake Edward’s ‘The Pink Panther’ as well as working with Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Sergio Leone. On his father’s side one of his great-uncles was a close friend of Giacomo Puccini the composer of Tosca, Turandot and Madame Butterfly. Another great-uncle served as an assistant to renowned Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, a colleague of Albert Einstein and to whom the phrase ‘Fermi’s Paradox’ is attributed. After a brief stint DJ’ing at select fashion shows (Armani, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana,