Giorgio Gaber

Giorgio Gaber (), by name of Giorgio Gaberscik (25 January 1939 – 1 January 2003), was an Italian singer, composer, actor, and playwright. He was also an accomplished guitar player and author of one of the first rock songs in Italian ("Ciao ti dirò", 1958). With Sandro Luporini, he pioneered the musical genre known as teatro canzone ("theatre song").
He was born in Milan into a lower-middle-class family. His father, Guido Gaberscik, was born in Trieste when the city was... plus