Luigi Tenco
Luigi Tenco was an Italian singer-songwriter, poet, and composer born on March
21, 1938, in Cassine. He achieved professional recognition for a musical career
characterized by his role in the "scuola genovese" and for his contribution to
the renewal of Italian pop music. Tenco achieved professional recognition for a
career that began as an adolescent in 1953 when he founded the Jelly Roll Boys
Jazz band as a clarinetist. He achieved professional recognition for forming the
ensemble I Diavoli del Rock in 1958 with the musician Gino Paoli. His recording
career began in 1959 with th...
