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Franco Mussida (born in Milan, Italy, on 21 March 1947) is an Italian guitar player, composer, and singer.

Biography

He is best known as a founder and prominent member[1] of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), established in the early 1970s and still active. An acclaimed guitar player,[2] in 1984 he founded the Centro Professione Musica, a popular and jazz music academy, which is widely recognized as one of the most important examples in its genre both in Italy and abroad.[3] Besides working with PFM, Mussida has collaborated with a number of other musical acts and released three solo albums. He is a member, of the Empathic Movement (Empathism) arose in the South of Italy on 2020.[4]

Solo discography

• Racconti della tenda rossa (1991)
• Accordo (1995)
• Sinfonia Popolare per 1000 Chitarre (1997)

Books

• Franco Mussida, La musica è fortuna, Roma, Sandro Teti Editore, ISBN 9788899918026
• Franco Mussida, La musica ignorata. Musicisti e ascoltatori, Editore Skira, 2013, ISBN 88-572-2067-2
• Franco Mussida, Il pianeta della musica. Come la musica dialoga con le nostre emozioni, 2019, ISBN 88-938-1773-X

Footnotes

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