Franco Battiato
Born March 23, 1945
Italian singer-songwriter and composer Franco Battiato has ventured into just about every style, from pop muzak to avantgarde. Battiato has mixed popular music (pop songs) and avantgarde music (electronic collage) in a way that few musicians had attempted.
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, with a quasi-dadaist disrespect for what is passed as 'artsy' or 'trendy' by the intelligentsia.
Battiato is a national hero in Italy, widely considered one the greatest living musicians by both the critics and the public.
