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Franco Battiato
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Italian singer-songwriter and musician (1945-2021)
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Franco Battiato, born Francesco Battiato on March 23, 1945, in Riposto, was an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, film director, and writer. He began his professional work in 1967 and was active until his death on May 18, 2021. Battiato’s musical output spanned genres including opera, new wave, progressive rock, and experimental music. He performed with the voice as his primary instrument and released recordings through Philips Records, EMI, and Mercury Records.
In addition to his music career, Battiato participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984. He received the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. His written works include *Attraversando il bardo*, *Il silenzio e l'ascolto*, *Musikanten*, *Battiato*, and *Tecnica mista su tappeto*. He spoke Italian and Arabic, with Italian as his native language. Battiato was a vegetarian, and his copyright was represented by SIAE.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Attraversando il bardo
- Il silenzio e l'ascolto
- Musikanten
- Battiato
- Tecnica mista su tappeto
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound · Riposto, Catania, Italy
Known for
- Falso Nueve — Franco Battiato2025
- Milva, diva per sempre — Himself2024
- Il coraggio di essere Franco — Sé stesso (materiale d'archivio)2022
- Marco Unedited: From Pannella's Last 100 Days — Self2022
- Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone2022
- TV Story Superstar — Self (archive footage)2020
- Father — Guilio Fontana2016
- Crossing the Bardo2014
- Temporary Road. (una) Vita di Franco Battiato2013
- Quiproquo2011
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Italy
- Active from
- 1945
- Active to
- 2021
Discography
- Il Mondo Va Così ∕ Triste Come Me1967
- La torre / Le reazioni1967
- Fetus1972
- La convenzione / Paranoia1972
- Pollution1973
- Sulle corde di Aries1973
- “Clic”1974
- “Clic”1974
- M.elle le « Gladiator »1975
- Feed Back1976
Member of
- Osage Tribe1971–1971
- Telaio Magnetico
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 316,538
- Total plays
- 7,454,317
Tags
Franco Battiato (born 1945 in Sicily, Italy – Milo, 18 May 2021) was an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and painter. He is considered one of the most original personalities in Italian music from the 1970s to now. Battiato's songs are dreamy, controversial collages of images and sensations, very experimental and convoluted, rich of esoteric, philosophical and East Asian religious themes. His collaborations (from 1994 onward) with <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Franco+Battiato
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
Most cited works
- Genesi : opera in tre atti1987 · 0 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,688x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings 1PII of original article: S0169-409X(96)00423-1. The article was originally published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 23 (1997) 3–25. 1
· 2001 · cited 10,865x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings
· 1997 · cited 10,408x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,853x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,577x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Also known as
- Süphan Barzani
- Born
- Francesco Battiato , ( 1945-03-23 ) 23 March 1945, Ionia , Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 18 May 2021 (2021-05-18) (aged 76), Milo , Sicily, Italy
- Genres
- Beat new wave experimental musique concrète progressive pop electropop pop new-age opera free jazz progressive rock psychedelic
- Occupations
- Musician singer composer filmmaker painter
- Instruments
- Vocals piano guitar pianoforte organ violin synthesizer harpsichord mellotron
- Years active
- 1965–2019
- Labels
- Ricordi EMI Sony Music
- Website
- www .battiato .it
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Franco Battiato: Sito ufficiale - Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato è nato a Jonia (CT) nel 1945. Sin dai primi anni ’70 partecipa attivamente alle correnti di ricerca e sperimentazione europee.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Riposto
- Place of death
- Milo
- Educated at
- University of Catania
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1984
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Mercury Records
- Official website
- www.battiato.it
- Image
- Franco Battiato - 23 July 2010 - 05 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Franco Battiato
- date of birth
- 1945-03-23
- Commons gallery
- Franco Battiato
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- birth name
- Francesco Battiato
- name in native language
- Francu Battiatu
- copyright representative
- SIAE
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- writing language
- Italian
- influenced by
- George Gurdjieff
- social media followers
- 192000
- date of death
- 2021-05-18
- interested in
- spirituality
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Francesco "Franco" Battiato ( Italian: [ˈfraŋko batˈtjaːto, - battiˈaːto] ; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani (from Arabic: سبحان البارزاني), also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes (including, but not limited to, philosophy, art, spirituality, science, introspection, innovation, esotericism, religiousness), and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, minimalism, avant-garde, progressive rock, new wave, symphonic music, sound collage, opera, oratorio and movie soundtrack.
He was for decades one of the most popular singer-songwriters in Italy. His unique sound, song-crafting and especially his lyrics (often containing philosophical, intellectual and culturally exotic references, as well as tackling universal themes about the human condition) earned him a unique spot on Italy's music scene, and the nickname of "Il Maestro". His work includes songwriting and joint production efforts with several Italian and international musicians and pop singers, including the long-lasting professional relationship with Italian singers Alice and Giuni Russo. Together with Alice, Battiato represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "I treni di Tozeur".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Franco Battiato” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.