# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franco-battiato
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:55.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franco-battiato"
name: "Franco Battiato"
slug: "franco-battiato"
description: "Francesco \"Franco\" Battiato was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes, and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, minimalism, avant-garde, progressive rock, new wave, symphonic music, sound collage, opera, oratorio and movie soundtrack."
tagline: "Italian singer-songwriter and musician (1945-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franco_Battiato_-_23_July_2010_-_05_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-03-23"
deathDate: "2021-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           25.843264
  currentAttention:     7.625
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  41
  category: null
totalFollowers: 230000
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump