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Using the death of Fabrizio De André from cancer on January 11, 1999, Italy lost among its modern singer/songwriters. Influenced from the songwriting of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, De André’s tunes encompassed Genoese folk tunes, French protest/interpersonal commentary, beatnik “blast of awareness” poetry, as well as the soundtracks of …

Italy’s leading progressive rock and roll outfit of the first ’70s, PFM could have remained a purely Italian sensation had they not been signed to Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Manticore label. Their audio was even more distinctly rooted within the pre-classical period than that of their Germanic counterparts. Furthermore to …

Sergio Cammariere was created in Crotone, Italy in the 1960s. His exclusive compositional design and deft piano playing had been seldom heard just before his debut in his mid-thirties. He earned the Premio Tenco Prize for greatest performer of the entire year in 1997. Called because the revelation of the …

Blessed in 1951 in Rome, vocalist/songwriter Francesco De Gregori was raised hearing and getting inspired by American music artists Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in addition to Italian musician Fabrizio De André. It had been the last mentioned who noticed De Gregori documenting songs in a well-known studio room in …