Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted. By Gaia Pianigiani Franco Battiato, one of ...

Oct. 19: Few songwriters or composers can boast a career as rich and diverse as Franco Battiato’s. The Sicilian native, now sixty-four, began working in the late sixties. In 1971, he recorded a ...

One of Italy’s most eclectic and experimental pop singers, Franco Battiato, died 18 May aged 76. He had been ill for some time. Born in Acireale, Sicily, the Italian singer-songwriter, composer, ...

WHEN ROSARIO FIORELLO, an Italian comedian known for his mocking impersonations, parodied Franco Battiato, people mistook his song for the real thing. The send-up of Italian pop music’s eccentric ...

Franco Battiato, Italian music icon and household name, passed away on Tuesday at his house, a castle in Sicily. He had been suffering with Alzheimer’s since 2019, when he withdrew from the public eye ...

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Franco Battiato, the musical genius who became a household name in the late seventies and early eighties, died on Tuesday at 76 years of age, at his house, a castle located in the small hamlet of Milo ...

With his operatic performance-cum-radio play Miscontinuum released as an album earlier this year, the Mouse On Mars man takes Nick Hutchings on a trawl of his favourite avant-garde and experimental ...

Italian popular singer Franco Battiato died today, Italian media report. He was 76, and had been ill for a time. Battiato died in his home in Milo, close to Catania. He had been born on 23 March 1945, ...