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Piero Cassano

Piero Cassano (born 13 September 1948) is an Italian keyboardist, singer and composer, a founding member of the Genoan band Matia Bazar. Early career and Jet Cassano started playing the piano at a

Piero Cassano (born 13 September 1948) is an Italian keyboardist, singer and composer, a founding member of the Genoan band Matia Bazar. Early career and Jet Cassano started playing the piano at a young age. In 1971 he founded the progressive rock band JET with fellow musicians Aldo Stellita and Carlo Marrale. The band released an album, Fede, speranza, carità and unsuccessfully participated to the Sanremo Music Festival 1973 with the song Anika na-o. Matia Bazar: first stint In 1975 vocalist Antonella Ruggiero and drummer Giancarlo Golzi joined Jet, resulting in a new band: Matia Bazar. In a six-year span, Cassano composed many of their hits, namely Stasera…che sera! (1975), Per un’ora d’amore (1975), Cavallo bianco (1975), Solo tu (1977), …e dirsi ciao – the winning song of the Sanremo Music Festival 1978, Raggio di luna (the Italian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1979) and C’è tutto un mondo intorno (1979). In 1981 Cassano decided to leave Matia Bazar to pursue other projects. As a composer and producer In 1983, Cassano started a collaboration with lyricist Adelio Cogliati. Together, they helped launch newcomer Eros Ramazzotti, writing for him hits like Una storia imp

Era
Post-War
Lived
1948–present
From
Italy
Born in
Genoa
Known as
composer, singer, recording artist, musician, keyboardist
Instruments
keyboard instrument

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.