Ivano Fossati

Ivano Alberto Fossati is an Italian pop singer from Genoa. He was a member of the progressive rock group Delirium and has worked with Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi, Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bassey, Francesco De Gregori, Menudo and Mina. In 1972, he exhibited at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Jesahel" in a collective band named Delirium. After the new single "Haum" that Delirium presented at Un disco per l'estate Fossati left the group to start a solo career. The debut album is named Beati i ricchi, part of the soundtrack of the movie having the same name. In those years, Fossati wrote a number of successful songs sung by other singers, as Un'emozione da poco, Dedicato, Non può morire un'idea and Mi vuoi. An extremely successful song was Pensiero stupendo, sung by Patty Pravo. In 1982 he wrote the successful song Non sono una signora for Loredana Bertè. In 1996 Fossati co-wrote the songs of the album Anime Salve of the prominent Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André. He also sings in some of the album's songs. The same year he released his album Macramé. Both albums received the "Targa Tenco" under "Best album" category. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano_F...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)