Marco Masini is an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and pianist.
Mia Martini was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.
Sergio Rubini is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Finley is an Italian rock band formed in Legnano, Lombardy, Italy in 2002.
Carla Bissi, known professionally as Alice or Alice Visconti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who began her career in the early 1970s. After releasing three albums by the end of the decade, her breakthrough came in 1981 when she won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Per Elisa". This was followed by European hit singles like "Una notte speciale", "Messaggio", "Chan-son Egocentrique", "Prospettiva Nevski" and "Nomadi" and albums like Gioielli rubati, Park Hotel, Elisir, and Il sole nella pioggia which charted in Continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan.
Fiorella Mannoia is an Italian singer, songwriter, and actress.
Locanda delle Fate is an Italian progressive rock band from the end of the Italian progressive rock movement.
The Frozen Autumn is an Italian darkwave band, formed in May 1993, characterized by a blend of melancholic vocals, atmospheric gothic-wave and 1980s-style electropop.
Nicola Campogrande is an Italian composer and music journalist. He is the artistic director of the MITO SettembreMusica festival. He writes for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. His music is published exclusively by Breitkopf & Härtel.
Pooh is an Italian pop band formed in Bologna in 1966. Over the course of their career, Pooh has sold over 100 million records. Some of the band's most popular songs include "Parsifal", "Dove comincia il sole" and "Pensiero".
Cosa resta... Un fiore is the second studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released under the stage name 'Alice Visconti' in 1978 on CBS Records.
Capo Nord is the third studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1980 on EMI Music.
Riccardo Fogli is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Carlo Vanzina was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.
Tutto è possibile is the debut album studio by Finley, released in 2006. It was rereleased in the spring-summer of the same year in a Gold Edition, with the addition of the song Dentro Alla Scatola, with Mondo Marcio. In November 2006, it was again released in a Special Edition Hard Pop, containing 3 covers and a DVD, to celebrate the group's being awarded Best Italian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The 5 singles that were released are: Tutto è possibile, Diventerai Una Star, Sole di settembre, Fumo e cenere and Scegli me.
Massimo Volume is an Italian rock group formed in Bologna in 1992. They sing in Italian and the singer is well known for his poetic spoken-word style. Their musical style may be described as being akin to post-rock: their sound is built on guitars and drums, but rhythms are often complex and articulated, while the guitar effects are also used to effect. The structure of their songs avoid completely the verse-chorus form: in its place, their pieces tend to describe an atmosphere or a sound-scape complemented by the spoken words.
The Acqui Award of History is an Italian prize. The prize was founded in 1968 for remembering the victims of the Acqui Military Division who died in Cefalonia fighting against the Nazis. The jury is composed of seven members: six full professors of history and a group of sixty (60) ordinary readers who have just one representative in the jury. The Acqui Award Prize is divided into three sections: history, popular history, and historical novels. A special prize entitled “Witness to the Times,” given to individual personalities known for their cultural contributions and who have distinguished themselves in describing historical events and contemporary society, may also be conferred. Beginning in 2003 special recognition for work in multimedia and iconography--”History through Images”—was instituted.
Lino Capolicchio was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. He won a special David di Donatello acting award for his role in Vittorio de Sica's 1970 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Contini.
Gianni Berengo Gardin is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising.
The filmography on immigration in Italy is a phenomenon started with the arrival of the first migratory flows in Italy, since the 1990s.
Bologna, Italy 