55 Italian musician stubs

Vincenzo "Enzo" Avitabile is an Italian saxophonist, composer and singer-songwriter. He plays a fusion of World music and Jazz fusion music, rooted in Neapolitan traditions and characteristic dialect.

Stefano di Battista is an Italian jazz musician who plays soprano and alto saxophone.

Luciano Biondini is an Italian jazz and folk music accordion player that has appeared on the albums of various musicians, including Gabriele Mirabassi, Fratelli Mancuso, Ivano Fossati, Samo Salamon and Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Andrea Adami da Bolsena was an Italian castrato, musician, and later secretary to Cardinal Ottoboni.

Father Cesare Bonizzi, O.F.M. Cap., also known as Frate Cesare and Fratello Metallo – which was also the name of his band, is an Italian Capuchin friar, who was known as a heavy metal singer.

Sergio Bruni was a popular Italian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was often called "The Voice of Naples".

Pino Calvi was an Italian pianist, arranger, conductor and soundtrack composer for films and TV series.

Barbara Casini is an Italian jazz vocalist and guitarist.

Pietro Castrucci was an Italian violinist and composer.

Lorenzo Cilembrini, better known as Il Cile, is an Italian singer-songwriter. His debut single, "Cemento armato", was released in 2012 and later included in the album Siamo morti a vent'anni, issued by Universal Music during the same year. In 2013, he competed in the Newcomers' section of the 63rd Sanremo Music Festival, performing the song "Le parole non servono più", but was eliminated during the second night of the show. In 2014, he released his second studio album, In Cile Veritas, which became his second top ten record in Italy. He also appeared as a featured artist on the single "Maria Salvador", by Italian rapper J-Ax, which achieved commercial success in 2015.

Gianni Coscia is an Italian jazz accordionist. Originally a lawyer, Coscia began focusing full-time on jazz music. Expresses an interest in developing "the remote values of cultural and popular tradition through the language of jazz." Has toured widely on the international jazz circuit. Of interest: the liner notes to his first CD were written by his former classmate Umberto Eco and he collaborated with Luciano Berio in the writing of the music of a stage show against antisemitism. Since 1995 he has collaborated with wood-player Gianluigi Trovesi mainly on the label ECM Records and since 2006 he has been a member of the Council of the Chigiana Music Academy in Siena.

Renato D'Aiello is an Italian saxophonist living in London, England.

Federico De Robertis is an Italian musician, composer and record producer. De Robertis was born in Lucca, Tuscany. He composed the soundtrack for many movies by the Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, Puerto Escondido (1992), Nirvana (1995) and Siberian Education (2013), also for the Vanzina's Brothers.

Stefano Belisari, nicknamed Elio, is an Italian singer and musician. He is the founding members of the Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese.

Antonio Esposito is an Italian musician, drummer and percussionist.

Lucio Fabbri is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist.

Gino Filippini was an Italian composer, conductor and arranger.

Alberto Fortis is an Italian musician and songwriter.

Mara Galassi is an Italian harpist, musicologist and recording artist specializing in the music for Early harps, including Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque, in particular double (cross-strung) and triple harps of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as Classical era single-action pedal harps.

Gaetano Gaspari was an Italian composer, bibliographer, and historian of music. He composed mainly liturgical music, including the Offertorium of the Messa per Rossini. He studied with Benedetto Donelli at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna from 1820-1827, where he won first prizes in piano and counterpoint. He simultaneously served as the organist at San Martino, Bologna from 1824-1827. From 1828 to 1836 he was conductor of the municipal orchestra and maestro di cappella of the Collegiata at Pieve di Cento. He also served as chorus master of the Imola Cathedral, and taught vocal exercises at the Liceo Musicale. His Zibaldone musicale contains a classification of the collections of the Liceo's music library, and served as the basis for the Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna.

Valentina Giovagnini was an Italian pop singer, active between 2001 and 2009. She was born in Arezzo, Italy.

Heroes Of The Night is an Italian rock/blues band formed in 2008 by Daniel Solero and Daniele Rodes. In 2012 the band gained notoriety after they recorded a cover of the song "We Are Young". The song was selected for the finals of Rock Revolution, music contest organized by the Italian singer Vasco Rossi. The music video of this cover reached 500.000 views on YouTube. The band released two albums, "Al 100%" and "HOTN", during the period when the band was in California in 2015.

Luigi Hugues was an Italian academic geographer and accomplished amateur musician. He is best known today as a composer and arranger of virtuoso works for the flute, and for his contributions to the teaching and history of geography.

Amir Issaa also known as Amir or Meticcio is an Italian rapper. He is called Meticcio (Mestizo) because his father is from Egypt and his mother is Italian. He sang the title song of the soundtrack for the movie Scialla!.

Nour-Eddine Lakhmari is a Moroccan instrumentalist, singer, choreographer and film director.

Francesco Lamperti was an Italian singing teacher.

Antonio Lasciac (Italian) or Anton Laščak (Slovene) was an architect, engineer, poet and musician of Slovene descent, who designed the Khedive Palace in Istanbul and the Tahra Palace in Cairo.

Roberto Leydi was an Italian ethnomusicologist.

Maurizio "Maury" Lobina is an Italian musician and singer, most known as a member of the band Eiffel 65, an Italian group who hit big in 1999 with the international success "Blue ." Lobina created the melody for the song "Blue" on a keyboard and asked vocalist Jeffrey Jey to "come up with strange lyrics" to accompany his piano riff. Producer Massimo Gabutti is another author of the track.

Franco (Gian) Manzecchi was an Italian drummer.

Gabriele Mirabassi is an Italian jazz clarinetist.

Franco Mussida is an Italian guitar player, composer, and singer. He is best known as a founder and prominent member of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), established in the early 1970s and still active. An acclaimed guitar player, in 1984 he founded the Centro Professione Musica, a popular and jazz music academy, which is widely recognized as one of the most important examples in its genre both in Italy and abroad. Besides working with PFM, Mussida has collaborated with a number of other musical acts and released three solo albums.

Nicoletto da Torino was a Piedmontese jongleur and troubadour of the first half of the thirteenth century, probably from Turin, though some believe that to be his father's name. He produced three surviving tensos with Joan d'Albusson, Falquet de Romans, and Uc de Saint Circ.

Mauro Pagani is an Italian musician and singer.

Tancredi Palamara, known professionally as Tank Palamara, is an Italian rock guitarist.

Fabio Pignatelli is an Italian musician. He is the bass guitar player for the Italian progressive rock band Goblin. Goblin provided soundtracks for several horror films, most famously Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978). The band was largely defunct by 1979, but Pignatelli kept the group together, as well as holding onto the name, and the group continued well into the 1990s, with its main lineup restored briefly in 2000. Because of Pignatelli's operation of a band with the name, they were credited as Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante for the film, Tenebrae, because the other band members, most of whom had not worked with Simonetti or Morante, were not involved.

Nicola Piovani is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful.

Franco Pisano was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, and jazz musician.

Giovanni Francesco Pressenda was an Italian violin maker.

Luca Princiotta, is an Italian guitarist. He began his career playing in the thrash metal band Deathector between 1996 and 1998, before joining the Iron Maiden tribute band Clairvoyants. His most prominent role to date has been in BLAZE as a replacement for their departed founding guitarist Steve Wray. Originally used only as a tour musician, he was eventually hired on a permanent basis contributed to the songwriting for the band's upcoming album before departing in January 2007.

Danilo Rea is an Italian jazz pianist. He is a graduate of the Santa Cecilia music conservatory in Rome. He made his debut with the "Trio di Roma" in 1975.

Giulio Ricordi was an Italian editor and musician who joined the family firm, the Casa Ricordi music publishing house, in 1863, then run by his father, Tito, the son of the company's founder Giovanni Ricordi. Upon his father's death in 1888, Giulio became the head of the company until his death.

Enrico Rocca was an Italian violin maker of the 19th and the 20th Centuries and son of Giuseppe Rocca.

Giuseppe Rocca was an Italian violin maker of the 19th century.

Raffaele Celeste "Nini" Rosso was an Italian jazz trumpeter and composer.

Enrico Simonetti was an Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and television and radio presenter.

Pasquale Stafano (born December 2, 1972, is an Italian jazz pianist, composer and arranger who performs internationally.

Alessandro "Alex" Staropoli is a keyboard player, composer, leader and co-founder of the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He does the orchestral arrangements in all the band's songs. Following the split with Turilli, Staropoli is Rhapsody of Fire's only remaining founding member.

Carlo Tessarini, was an Italian composer and violinist in the late Baroque era.

Alberto Testa was an Italian dancer, choreographer, dance critic and teacher, born in Turin, Kingdom of Italy. He choreographed a number of ballets to operatic music, and worked on films with Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti.

Giovanni Maria Trabaci was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 publications; he was especially important for his keyboard music.

Linda Valori is an Italian singer.

Maria Rachele “Mariele” Ventre was an Italian musician and singer, the founder and director of Italian children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano.

Marcello Vitale is a virtuoso performer and recording artist on the chitarra battente and baroque guitar, as well as a composer and a teacher of these instruments.

Wesley Johnson known by his stage name Wess was an American-born Italian singer and bass guitarist, perhaps mostly known for representing Italy along with Dori Ghezzi in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 in Stockholm, Sweden, placing third. He formed a successful duo with Ghezzi and achieved some hits in Italy, such as "Voglio stare con te", "Come stai? Con chi sei?" and "Un corpo e un'anima". Wess also was a singer and played bass guitar for the soul-funk band Wess & The Airedales in the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally from North Carolina, Wess moved to Italy in the 1960s in pursuit of a musical career. Wess died in New York during his United States tour when a breathing crisis led to his death. He was the father of UK-based R'n'B singer Romina Johnson, who often accompanied him as a backing singer. In its Winter 2018 issue, Oxford American magazine published an essay about Johnson's life as a young performer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and how his earliest experiences affected his career in Italy