Giovanna Marini

Giovanna Marini (born Giovanna Salviucci; 19 January 1937 – 8 May 2024) was an Italian singer, songwriter, researcher and ethnomusicologist.
Marini was born in Rome in a family of musicians. Her father, Giovanni Salviucci (1907-1937), was a composer who studied with Ottorino Respighi. Her mother, Ida Parpagliolo (1904-1994), was a pianist. Marini studied classic guitar with Andrés Segovia and in 1959 she graduated at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome.
In the early 1960s she befriended artists and writers who... meer