Gianmaria Testa
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Born17 October 1958
Cavallermaggiore, Piedmont, Italy
Died30 March 2016 (aged 57)
Alba, Piedmont, Italy
OccupationsSinger, songwriter
Websitewww.gianmariatesta.com
Gianmaria Testa | |
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 Gianmaria Testa in 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 17 October 1958 Cavallermaggiore, Piedmont, Italy |
| Died | 30 March 2016 (aged 57) Alba, Piedmont, Italy |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Website | www |
Gianmaria Testa (17 October 1958 – 30 March 2016) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.[1]
Testa began musical performances in 1990 and in the early 1990s, he won two consecutive top prizes at the Recanati Festival.[2] His first album "Montgolfières" was issued in 1995 in a collaboration between the French Label Bleu and Harmonia Mundi.[3] Throughout his musical career, Testa continued to work as a station master at the train station in Cuneo, Italy. He sang in Italian and French and his music bore resemblances to folk, jazz and world music.[4]
