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- Birth nameFrancesco Battiato
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Franco Battiato was born on March 23, 1945 in Jonia, Sicily, Italy. He was a music artist and composer, known for Lost Love (2003), Children of Men (2006) and Musikanten (2005). He died on May 18, 2021 in Milo, Sicily, Italy.
- He was also a painter under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani.
- In 2003 Battiato released his first feature film, Perduto amor (Lost love), for which he also composed the soundtrack. The movie won the Silver Ribbon for the best debutant director and was screened, out of competition as a Battiato request, with excellent critics in prestigious film festivals like Berlin, Cannes, Venezia, New York among others.
- He was for decades one of the most popular singer-songwriters in Italy.
- In 1975, he moved to the Dischi Ricordi label.
- In 1994 Battiato began to collaborate with the Sicilian philosopher Manlio Sgalambro, who was to write almost all the lyrics of his following albums.
- [About Quentin Tarantino] Does he think Italian cinema sucks? I think the same of his. I have no preconceptions about any kind of cinema, but I certainly don't like his trash.
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