Fabrizio De André

Italian songwriter, composer, guitarist, writer, and activist born February 18, 1940, in Genova Pegli and died January 11, 1999, in Milan (from lung cancer, diagnosed the year before). He started writing songs in 1960 ("La Ballata di Michè", composed with Clelia Petracchi was his first song), heavily influenced by French songwriters like Georges Brassens.