At the end of last year, top-shelf San Francisco reissue label Superior Viaduct rereleased the first three albums by Sicilian-born musician Franco Battiato. His name might not ring a bell for many ...

Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted. By Gaia Pianigiani Franco Battiato, one of ...

Leave it to the Italians to produce some of the kitschiest yet, dare I say it, classiest pop music ever made. In my opinion, music in general peaked in the era of new wave, whose Anglophone faces such ...

One of Italy’s most eclectic and experimental pop singers, Franco Battiato, died 18 May aged 76. He had been ill for some time. Born in Acireale, Sicily, the Italian singer-songwriter, composer, ...

Franco Battiato, Italian music icon and household name, passed away on Tuesday at his house, a castle in Sicily. He had been suffering with Alzheimer’s since 2019, when he withdrew from the public eye ...

WHEN ROSARIO FIORELLO, an Italian comedian known for his mocking impersonations, parodied Franco Battiato, people mistook his song for the real thing. The send-up of Italian pop music’s eccentric ...

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Franco Battiato, the musical genius who became a household name in the late seventies and early eighties, died on Tuesday at 76 years of age, at his house, a castle located in the small hamlet of Milo ...