One of Italy's most popular and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters of the
1960s and '70s, Fabrizio De André was born in 1940 in Genoa to a wealthy
businessman who supported anti-fascist causes that meant the family had to seek
hiding during World War II. He started to play the guitar as a teenager and
began releasing folk albums of social commentary in the 1960s. His music was
influenced by American jazz, singer-songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Bob
Dylan and the traditional forms of Italian and French folk singing.
He collaborated with several other artists including...