Promoted by another Italian singer and songwriter, Gino Paoli, Dalla started performing in the 1960s. In 1977, Dalla's first album with songs written by himself — "How Deep is the Sea" — came out.

The plain-spoken Italian singer Lucio Dalla, who died in 2012, could be impish, ardent or gnomic. The new documentary “For Lucio” goes a long way toward explaining his appeal. Mubi ...

The Dalla connection Lucio Dalla —the multi-talented Italian musician, singer, songwriter, actor and director—beloved all over the world—was born and bred in Bologna.

The day after the death of Lucio Dalla, Vogue.it honors the great singer-songwriter with the words of his friend and director Pupi Avati, who during the latest edition of the Genova Film Festival ...

Not handsome or dashing like the other singers of his generation, Lucio Dalla embodied a different role model that was closer to ordinary people. For here was an artist capable of transposing the ...

But Lucio Dalla was a man who, being gay, never said it out [loud]," said widely respected journalist Lucia Annunziata. She said Dalla's case was an example of how much homophobia existed in Italy.

With “Lucio Dalla Symphonic Concert”, the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento brought to the stage of the Teatro Bellini an extraordinary show of music, words, songs, and stories with ...

Friday, August 9Pierdavide Carone with his «Dalla and Sorrento» tribute to Lucio Dalla will be the protagonist of «Sorrento Classica», an international music festival directed by Maestro Paolo ...

But Lucio Dalla was a man who, being gay, never said it out [loud]," said widely respected journalist Lucia Annunziata. She said Dalla's case was an example of how much homophobia existed in Italy.