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Lucio Battisti

1943 - 1998

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Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting. Battisti released 18 studio albums from 1969 to 1994, with a significant portion of this catalogue translated into Spanish (various albums), English (one album), French (two albums), and German (one album). He was known to be an extremely reserved artist, performing only a small number of live concerts during his career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucio Battisti is the 551st most popular musician (down from 395th in 2019), the 2,181st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,828th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Lucio Battisti ranks 551 out of 3,175Before him are Isao Tomita, K. K. Downing, Lead Belly, Billy Ray Cyrus, Agustín Barrios, and Rudolf Serkin. After him are Rudolf Kempe, Robert Miles, Nikki Sixx, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Robert de Visée, and Paul Rodgers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Lucio Battisti ranks 208Before him are Terry Eagleton, Nancy Greene Raine, Randy Newman, Ian Kershaw, Boris Gromov, and Soad Hosny. After him are Nikolay Shmatko, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Edward L. G. Bowell, Albert Pintat, Nicholas Negroponte, and Carmen Argenziano. Among people deceased in 1998, Lucio Battisti ranks 93Before him are Remo Giazotto, Aymoré Moreira, Muriel Humphrey Brown, César Baldaccini, Momoko Kōchi, and J. T. Walsh. After him are Christian Mortensen, Zbigniew Herbert, Juan José Nogués, Patricia Hayes, Ed Ablowich, and John Derek.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lucio Battisti ranks 2,181 out of 5,161Before him are Alessandro Baricco (1958), Giorgio Perlasca (1910), Sergio Pininfarina (1926), Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720), Leandro Bassano (1557), and Attilio Ferraris (1904). After him are Pietro Nardini (1722), Galeazzo I Visconti (1277), Paul-Émile Botta (1802), Urbano Rattazzi (1808), Marco d'Aviano (1631), and Liutpert (680).

Among MUSICIANS In Italy

Among musicians born in Italy, Lucio Battisti ranks 22Before him are Matteo Carcassi (1792), Domenico Alberti (1710), Franco Battiato (1945), Guido Cantelli (1920), Rocco Granata (1938), and Aldo Ciccolini (1925). After him are Salvatore Accardo (1941), Antonio Bazzini (1818), Gaspara Stampa (1523), Enrico Toselli (1883), Giovanni Sgambati (1841), and Andrea Guarneri (1626).