Gianmaria Testa
Gianmaria Testa
Genres: italian, singer-songwriter, acoustic, cantautori, folk
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About Gianmaria Testa
Gianmaria Testa (17 October 1958 - 30 March 2016) was an Italian singer-songwriter. He was born in Cavallermaggiore near Cuneo (in Italy’s Piedmont region). He grew up in a family of farmers and taught himself to play guitar, writing his first songs as soon as he learned his chords. Before the start of his musical career he was station master at the Cuneo railway station. Gianmaria played and sang in several local rock bands before discovering his true, solitary vocation. In 1993 and 1994 he won first prize at the Recanati Festival for emerging singer-songwriters, where he met a French producer who took a liking to his demo tape. His first CD, Montgolfières, came out on Label Bleu in 1995. Gianmaria’s warm, dusky voice tells stories of wind and memories, earth and fog, objects that soar from one horizon to another and ladies in train stations (“Donne nelle stazioni”) who head off on someone else’s arm without looking back. His music is personal and richly melodic, flecked with accents of tango, bossa nova, habañera and jazz, but as spare and essential as a pencil sketch, imparting great beauty with simplicity and directness. Testa died 30 March 2016, in Alba, Piedmont, Italy.
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Gianmaria Testa — Top 30 songs of 53
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gianmaria Testa | Lasciami Andare | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Citta lunga (reprise) | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Veduta aerea (Aerial View) | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Tela Di Ragno | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Altre latitudini (Other Lattitudes) | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Di Niente Meta D | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | La Tua Voce D | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Canto | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Lele | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | In Viaggio Verso Il Paradiso | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | 'Na stella | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Potrai | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Un aeroplano a vela | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Come Le Onde Del Mare | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Dentro le tasche di un qualunque mattino | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Miniera | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | 20 Mila Leghe (In Fondo Al Mare) | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | 3 4 | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Sei La Conchiglia | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Una Barca Scura | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Preferisco cosi | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Senza titolo | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Lucia Di Notte D | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Lampo | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Dentro Al Cinema | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Dentro Al Cinema [4s1] | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Il Viaggio [4pZ] | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Il Meglio Di Te | ||
| Gianmaria Testa | Come Un'america |