Edoardo Bennato

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Edoardo Bennato
Bennato in concert in 2016
Background information
Birth name	Edoardo Bennato
Born	(1946-07-23) 23 July 1946 (age 78) Naples, Italy
Genres	Rock blues rock rock and roll folk rock pop rock folk
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals electric guitar steel-string acoustic guitar twelve-string guitar harmonica kazoo pedal-tambourine
Labels	Parade [it] Ri-Fi Numero Uno [it] Ricordi Cheyenne [it] Five [it] RTI Music [it]
Website	www.bennato.net

Edoardo Bennato (born 23 July 1946, Naples, Campania, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is the brother of the singer-songwriter Eugenio Bennato.

He is considered one of the greatest artists in Italian rock,^[1] a genre that he has often combined with blues and folk. Guitarist, harmonica player and singer, he later began to propose himself as one-man band, playing at the same time also tambourines, kazoo and other percussions. His texts are often ironic,^[2] irreverent,^[3][4] and turned in a biting way against power, at any level and in any form it manifests.^[5]

He was the first Italian singer to fill the San Siro Stadium in Milan with more than sixty thousand people on July 19, 1980,^[1][6] and the first Italian singer to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976.^[7] Also, Bennato was the first singer to have released two albums only 15 days apart in March 1980: Uffà! Uffà! and Sono solo canzonette.^[1][8]