Fabrizio De André
Singer - Songwriter
Italian · 20th century
Italian singer-songwriter celebrated for literary, poetic concept albums. His 1971 album Non al denaro, non all'amore, né al cielo sets poems from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology to song, giving each of the town's dead their own track.
Connection to Taylor Swift
Surfaced through community discussion of betty: his Spoon River concept album carried the speaking-dead device the hosts used to frame the folklore character songs into popular songwriting decades before folklore.
Notable Works
- Non al denaro, non all'amore, né al cielo; La buona novella; Creuza de mä