Lucio Battisti
Italian singer-songwriter and composer (1943–1998)
Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting.2
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Born Mar 5, 1943, died Sep 9, 1998.1
About
Battisti released 18 studio albums from 1969 to 1994, with a significant portion of this catalogue translated into Spanish (various albums), English (one album), French (two albums), and German (one album). He was known to be an extremely reserved artist, performing only a small number of live concerts during his career. In 1978 he announced that he would speak to the public only through his musical work, limiting himself to the recording of studio albums and disappearing from the public scene.
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Companies
Career
Occupation: musician, record producer, music arranger, lyricist, Liedermacher, composer, singer-songwriter, singer.4
- Date not recordedFounded Edizioni musicali Acqua azzurra srl3
Personal life
Politics
Political views
Battisti always saw himself as politically unengaged, if not apolitical, while he attributed to Mogol socialist ideas. But in a 1992 letter he expressed the intention to vote for Marcello Baraghini, A candidate in the Marco Pannella list in the year's political elections. The lyrics of the song Io ti venderei and the epithet "stupid" revolved at the protagonist of the song alienated some exponents of the Feminist Movement and prevented him from participating in The Festival of the young proletariat organized by the Italian counterculture magazine Re Nudo.
Mogol's lyrics usually talked about sentimental themes, sometimes referencing environmental themes, at the time considered to be more "elite" issues, sometimes even being detrimental in comparison to other sociopolitical issues. The themes in Battisti's songs were always very distant to the interests of "Conscious" singers and bands in the golden age of the protest song, like in the case of the rejection to Cover the song Non è Francesca by the band Nomadi in favour of Francesco Guccini's Dio è Morto.
In the first half of the 1970s a theory came to fruition, credited to Re Nudo, that attributed to Battisti fascist sympathies and accused him of funding the terrorist group Ordine Nuovo. The magazine accused him because his songs did not have Left-wing messages; Very prevalent in the songs of other singers at the time: Which caused an "Appropriation" of Battisti by the far-right, And in part (according to Mogol) a partial rejection of the May'68 movement.
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- 1WikidataLucio Battisti on Wikidata
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- 14Wikimedia CommonsLucio Battisti photo by Rai, Public domain