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8 unusual facts about Franco Battiato


18556 Battiato

The asteroid was dedicated to the Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato.

Battiato

Franco Battiato (born 1945), Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and painter

Dieci stratagemmi

Dieci stratagemmi (Italian: "Ten Stratagems") is an album by Franco Battiato.

Fisiognomica

Fisiognomica is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Music Italian in 1988.

Gianni Mocchetti

In 1971 the crystals fragile were discovered by Franco Battiato, and with the addition of other musicians, including keyboardist Roberto Cacciapaglia, the group became the Battiatio's support group in the studio and in live performances.

L'arca di Noè

L'arca di Noè (Italian for "Noah's Ark") is an album by the Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato.

Mondi lontanissimi

Mondi Lontanissimi (Italian: "Very Distant Worlds") is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Italiana in 1985.

Orizzonti perduti

Orizzonti perduti is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Music Italiana in 1983.


God Is My DJ

The partly instrumental concert God Is My DJ, which later was recorded in studio and released on Warner Music, comprises works by composers as diverse as Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French, Hungarian and Livonian traditionals as well as eleventh and fourteenth century hymns sung in Ancient Greek and Latin.

I treni di Tozeur

"I treni di Tozeur" ("The trains of Tozeur") is an Italian song, written by Franco Battiato, Rosario Cosentino and Giusto Pio.

Paolo Buonvino

Born in Scordia, Catania, Buonvino graduated in piano at the Conservatory Francesco Cilea in Reggio Calabria, then he started his career as a musical assistant of Franco Battiato.


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