10 Facts About Eugenio Finardi

Eugenio Finardi was born on July 16,1952 and is an Italian rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.

Eugenio Finardi was born in Milan, Italy, on July 16,1952, in a musical family: his father Enzo was an Italian music sound engineer and his mother Eloise an American opera singer; at age six Finardi made his first record, Palloncino Rosso Fuoco, a children song.

The scene Eugenio Finardi became part of included among others bands like Area and Stormy Six, Claudio Rocchi and female singer-songwriter Donatella Bardi.

Eugenio Finardi made a living by day teaching English, in which he was fluent because of his American mother, and as a musician by night, as a singer, guitarist and piano player.

Thanks to his friendship with the band Area and their singer Demetrio Stratos, in 1974 Eugenio Finardi signed with the label Cramps, run by Gianni Sassi.

Eugenio Finardi became known from playing at Milan's alternative Festival in Parco Lambro in 1976, introducing a Rock sound to the Italian genre of singer-songwriters who were often politically involved, and mostly somewhat derivative of folk rock, the early protest songs of Bob Dylan, and of the American West-Coast music of artists like Neil Young.

Eugenio Finardi, who had started performing live often on his own with an acoustic guitar and sitting down, was now touring with a four or five-piece Rock band.