Francesco Guccini was an Italian singer-songwriter, writer and occasional actor. During the five decades of his music career he recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He was also a writer, having published autobiographic, and hardboiled novels, and a comics writer. Guccini also worked as an actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographerm and dialectologist. Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, Folk beat n. 1, was released in 1967, but his first success was in 1972 with the album Radici. He was harshly criticised after releasing Stanze di vita quotidiana and answered his critics with the song "L'avvelenata". His studio albums production slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s, but his live performances continued being successful. His lyrics have been praised for their poetic and literary value and have been used in schools as an example of modern poetry. Guccini gained the appreciation of critics and fans, who regard him as an iconic figure. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
