- Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter (cantautore).
- He is considered to be one of the best-known and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history
- Battisti started his career in 1966 and from 1969 to 1994 he released 18 albums in his home country.
- A significant part of his production was translated into Spanish (various albums) and English (one album).
- He was renowned to be an extremely reserved artist: during his successful career he performed only a small number of live concerts, and in the early 1980s he announced he would limit himself to his studio albums, completely disappearing from the Italian public scene. (From Wikipedia.com)