Franco Mussida
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Franco Mussida (born in Milan, Italy, on 21 March 1947) is an Italian guitar player, composer, and singer.
Biography[edit]
He is best known as a founder and prominent member[1] of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), established in the early 1970s and still active. An acclaimed guitar player,[2] in 1984 he founded the Centro Professione Musica, a popular and jazz music academy, which is widely recognized as one of the most important examples in its genre both in Italy and abroad.[3] Besides working with PFM, Mussida has collaborated with a number of other musical acts and released three solo albums. He is a member of the Empathic Movement, which arose in the South of Italy in 2020.[4]
Solo discography[edit]
- Racconti della tenda rossa (1991)
- Accordo (1995)
- Sinfonia Popolare per 1000 Chitarre (1997)
Books[edit]
- Franco Mussida, La musica è fortuna, Roma, Sandro Teti Editore, ISBN 9788899918026
- Franco Mussida, La musica ignorata. Musicisti e ascoltatori, Editore Skira, 2013, ISBN 88-572-2067-2
- Franco Mussida, Il pianeta della musica. Come la musica dialoga con le nostre emozioni, 2019, ISBN 88-938-1773-X
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ PFM at Ondarock
- ^ PFM at Planando
- ^ Centro Professione Musica
- ^ "Empatismo / Scuola Empatica: Movimento Letterario-Artistico-Filosofico e Culturale Sorto in Italia Nel 2020". 22 February 2021.
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