Ben Harper
2011
Benjamin Chase Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism. He has released twelve regular studio albums, mostly through Virgin Records and has toured internationally.
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Pat Metheny
2011
Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.
He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards and is the only person to win Grammys in 10 categories. He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist Mike Metheny.
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Franco Battiato
2012
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (born 23 March 1945)[2] is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes, and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, progressive rock, and new wave.
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Francesco De Gregori
2008
Francesco De Gregori (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.
He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet, although he prefers to be identified simply as "artist".
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Renzo Arbore
2015
Lorenzo Giovanni "Renzo" Arbore (born 24 June 1937) is an Italian TV host, showman, singer, musician, film actor, and film director.
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Harry Shearer
2015
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film Real Life (1979) with Albert Brooks and worked as a writer on Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night.
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Gary Lucas
2012
Gary Lucas (born June 20, 1952) is an American guitarist who was a member of Captain Beefheart's band. He formed the band Gods and Monsters in 1989.
Lucas has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Nick Cave, David Johansen, and Lou Reed.
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Fish
2008
Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer-songwriter and occasional actor.
Fish became widely known as the lead singer and lyricist of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion from 1981 until 1988.
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Alex Britti
2009
Alessandro "Alex" Britti (born 23 August 1968) is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Keith Emerson
2008
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, and composer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups.
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Manuel Agnelli
2011
Afterhours is an Italian alternative rock band. The band was named after the Velvet Underground song of the same name.
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Saturnino
2015
Saturnino (26 October 1969) is an italian musician best known for his work with the italian pop star Jovanotti.
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Paola Turci
2012>
Paola Turci (born 1964 in Rome), is an Italian singer, songwriter, performer and author.
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Michael Manring
2012
Michael Manring (born June 27, 1960) is an American bass guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Alberto Fortis
2018
Alberto Fortis (born 3 June 1955 in Domodossola) is an Italian musician and songwriter.
Fortis, who released his first album Alberto Fortis in 1979, is the composer of both music and lyrics, and has directed the video clips for three of his songs. Alberto Fortis contains a famous song "Milano e Vincenzo". In Italy it is known "Vincenzo, io t'ammazzerò" ("Vincent, I'm going to kill you") as well, from the first words in the song, where Fortis is angry with Vincenzo Micocci, his first producer.
His discography includes recordings from official collections and live recordings with a dozen discs made in Italy and abroad (Los Angeles, New York City and London). Three of his albums have gone gold.
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Angelo Branduardi
2013
Angelo Branduardi (born 12 February 1950) is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece.
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Patrizio Fariselli
2009
Patrizio Fariselli is an italian pianist best known for his work with italian progressive rock band Area.
He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet, although he prefers to be identified simply as "artist".
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