Gianmaria Testa

Gianmaria Testa

Biography

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 wo...

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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

"L'automobile" (1995)

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18 Mila Giorni (cd Version 2011) 18000 Giorni

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20 mila leghe (in fondo al mare)

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Al mercato di Porta Palazzo

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Dentro Al Cinema

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Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino

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Dimestichezze d'amor

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Dimestichezze d'amor

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Gianmaria Testa - Città lunga

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Gianmaria Testa - Come l'America

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Gli amanti di Roma

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Il passo e l'incanto

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Il valzer di un giorno

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L'albero del pane

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Lasciami Andare

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Le traiettorie delle mongolfiere

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Nient'altro Che Fiori

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Non ti aspetto più

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Nuovo (c) Produzioni Fuorivia

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Per Accompagnarti

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Per accompagnarti

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Polvere di gesso

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Polvere di Gesso(Enrico Martello e Fabio Masi)

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preferisco così

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Quello che vale

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Ritals - live Berlin Babylon 18.2.2012

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Sei la conchiglia

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Seminatori di grano

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Seminatori di grano (Pisa, 17 Maggio 2013)

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Solo Per Dirti Di No

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Un aeroplano a vela

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Una barca scura

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Voce da Combattimento

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Voce da combattimento

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