WBiagio Antonacci is an Italian singer-songwriter from Milan.
WVincenzo "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.
WFrancesco Baccini is an Italian singer-songwriter.
WLeandro Barsotti is an Italian singer-songwriter. His first big break came at the 1996 the Sanremo Music Festival with his song "Lasciarsi amare". In 1997, Barsotti took part for the second time in the Sanremo Music Festival, performing the song "Fragolina".
WDonato Battaglia, known simply as Dodi Battaglia, is an Italian musician and singer-songwriter known as a member of the group of the Pooh.
WLucio Battisti was an influential Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting.
WRoberto Remigio Benigni is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film.
WAlessandro Pizzamiglio was an Italian singer-songwriter.
WSteven Bryan is an Italian/English singer-songwriter. He has released two studio albums to date: One Way (2010) and Gravity Always Wins (2017).
WCristian Bugatti, also known as Bugo is an Italian singer-songwriter, artist and actor. He spent his youth in the rice fields of Cerano, in the Province of Novara in the Piedmont region. A self-taught artist, Bugo did not attend art or music school. In 2000 he moved to Milan, where he started his musical career. According to AllMusic, Bugo was one of the most interesting and controversial artists to emerge from the Italian independent scene of the 1990s. Although he is beloved by fans and critics, others consider him a comedy act. Blending international sound and Italian lyrics, Bugo became a cantautore (singer-songwriter) of the 2000s who moved the political songs of the 1970s into the disillusioned songwriting of the 2000s. He is considered a pioneer of the Italian singer-songwriter scene, and the neologism fantautore has been coined to describe him.
WLuca Carboni is an Italian singer-songwriter. He debuted in 1981 as guitarist in the band Teobaldi Rock, publishing his first solo album in 1983. He is also a painter and carpenter.
WManuel Cuni, known professionally as Immanuel Casto, is an Italian singer-songwriter.
WLucio Corsi is an Italian singer-songwriter.
WTony Cucchiara, stage name of Salvatore Cucchiara was an Italian folk singer-songwriter, playwright and composer.
WPino Daniele was an Italian singer-songwriter, and guitarist, whose influences covered a wide number of genres, including pop, blues, jazz, and Italian and Middle Eastern music.
WFederico 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.
WDavid Dileo, also known as Boosta, is an Italian singer, writer, and television host. He is known as the co-founder of the alternative rock band Subsonica.
WAntonio Diodato, known simply as Diodato, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the 70th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Fai rumore" and was scheduled to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, before it was cancelled by the EBU on 18 March 2020.
WTiziano Ferro is an Italian singer, Grammy Award winning, songwriter, producer and author. He broke through in 2001 with his international hit single "Perdono" and has remained commercially successful since then, in several countries. Ferro has released a Spanish version of each of his albums, and has also sung in English, Portuguese, and French. Known as the modern face of Italian pop music, he frequently writes songs for other artists and has produced albums for Giusy Ferreri, Alessandra Amoroso and Baby K.
WAdelmo Fornaciari, more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. His stage name is the Italian word for "sugar", as his elementary teacher used to call him. His music is largely inspired by gospel, soul, blues and rock music, and alternates between Italian ballads and more rhythmic R&B-boogie-like pieces. He is credited as the "father of Italian blues", introducing blues to the big stage in Italy. He is one of the few European blues artists who still enjoys great international success.
WDany Franchi is an Italian electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Franchi has recorded three albums to date, with the first two crediting his backing band. His third studio album, Problem Child (2018), peaked at number 4 in the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.
WFrancesco Gabbani is an Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He rose to fame after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2016 with the song "Amen". The next year, he went on to win the main section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2017 with the song "Occidentali's Karma", and represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 finishing in 6th place.
WGiampiero Scalamogna, best known as Gepy & Gepy, was an Italian singer, songwriter, producer and arranger. For his powerful voice and robust physique he was often paired to Barry White and Demis Roussos.
WMichele Testa, best known as Armando Gill, was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and poet.
WGianluca Grignani is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
WAlessandro Haber is an Italian actor, film director and singer.
WLorenzo Cherubini, better known as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper.
WGiuliano Di Paolo, also known as Julio D, is an Italian record producer, video director, photographer, singer-songwriter and author. His music includes a wide variety of influences including R&B, jazz, hip hop, synthpop, reggae and afrobeat.
WMimmo Locasciulli is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, producer and musician.
WAlessandro Mannarino, simply known mononymously as Mannarino, is an Italian singer-songwriter.
WMarco Masini, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician.
WErmal Meta is an Italian singer, songwriter and composer of Albanian descent.
WPerseo Miranda is an Italian vocalist and songwriter, and founder of the heavy metal band Perseo Miranda.
WMarco Castoldi, better known by his stage name Morgan, is an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist. His musical genres are mainly alternative rock and electronic rock, sometimes experimental rock and synthpop. He has also been a judge for seven seasons in the Italian version of The X Factor, winning five of them through acts he mentored: Aram Quartet, Matteo Becucci, Marco Mengoni, Chiara Galiazzo and Michele Bravi.
WFilippo Neviani, known by his stage name Nek, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Nek is popular in Italy and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and has performed and released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
WBlonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace that formed in New York City in 1993. The band's earliest albums were noted for their noise rock influences, though their sound evolved by the early 2000s with the releases of Misery is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007), which both incorporated elements of dream pop, shoegaze and other genres. They have released nine regular studio albums and have toured internationally.
WMauro Pagani is an Italian musician and singer.
WGino Paoli is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is a seminal figure who has written a number of songs widely regarded as classics in Italian popular music, including: "Il cielo in una stanza", "Che cosa c'è", "Senza fine" and "Sapore di sale".
WEros Walter Luciano Ramazzotti is an Italian musician, singer and songwriter. Ramazzotti is popular in Italy and most European countries, and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
WRenzo Rubino is an Italian pop singer songwriter.
WToni Santagata, stage name of Antonio Morese is an Italian folk singer, composer, comedian and actor. He is sometimes credited as Tony Santagata or Alfonso Santagata.
WDaniele Silvestri is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician.
WFrancesco Sondelli is an Italian rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, music producer, composer and entrepreneur. He is the founder, guitarist and vocalist for alternative rock band The Petalstones, of which Malin Åkerman, Swedish–Canadian actress, model and singer, was the lead vocalist, Mario Pagliarulo was the bassist, and Roberto Zincone was the drummer.
WGianmaria Testa was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
WUltimo, pseudonym of Niccolò Moriconi, is an Italian pop singer/songwriter and winner of the Sanremo Music Festival 2018 in the Newcomers category.
WPaolo Vallesi is an Italian singer-songwriter.
WAntonio "Antonello" Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.