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Claudio Baglioni info & bio

Claudio Baglioni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo baʎˈʎoːni]; born 16 May 1951) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. His career has been going on for over 50 years.

Considered one of the most successful pop rock singer-songwriters in the history of Italian music, he has sold over 60 million records, among which Questo piccolo grande amore from 1972 stands out, of which the song of the same name was awarded «song of the century», Strada facendo from 1981, one of the albums the artist's most successful album and La vita è adesso from 1985 which is the best-selling album of all time in Italy.

In the 90s he experiments world music with the discs of the time trilogy, which began with Oltre (1990) considered his masterpiece, continued with one of the best-selling albums ever in Italy Io sono qui (1995) and ended with Viaggiatore sulla coda del tempo (1999). In 2006 he composed the anthem of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Also an innovator in the field of live performances, Baglioni achieved over a million total spectators with the tours Alé Oó in 1982 and Notti di note in 1985. In 1986 he invented a new method of live performance, with the tour Assolo where he performed completely alone accompanied by electric guitar, piano, sequencer and MIDI, a technology never tested at the time.

In 1991 he was the first artist in the world to realize a concert with the stage in the centre, awarded by the magazine Billboard as «the best concert in the world», on 6 June 1998, again with the same concept of the stage in the centre, he set the record for attendance at a higher event ever; 100,000 spectators at the Olympic stadium in Rome, in 2000 he will perform in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City in the presence of 300,000 people including the Pope. In 2006 he was officially the first Italian artist to perform at the Brussels European Parliament.