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Gianmaria Testa (17 October 1958 – 30 March 2016) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.[1]

Gianmaria Testa
Gianmaria Testa in 2013
Background information
Born	(1958-10-17)17 October 1958 Cavallermaggiore, Italy
Died	30 March 2016(2016-03-30) (aged 57) Alba, Piedmont
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Website	www.gianmariatesta.com

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 "Montgolfieres" 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 bears resemblances to folk, jazz and world music.[4]

References

External links

• Media related to Gianmaria Testa at Wikimedia Commons
• Gianmaria Testa at AllMusic
• Gianmaria Testa discography at Discogs
• Gianmaria Testa at IMDb

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