Composer
Biography
Roman by birth, Luca Barbarossa won the Castrocaro festival in 1980 and reached Sanremo the following year with Roma spogliata. He represented Italy at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with Vivo (Ti scrivo), and won Sanremo in 1992 with Portami a ballare. Via Margutta, L'amore rubato and Yuppies belong to the same catalogue, and Passame er sale, written in Romanesco, brought him a Lunezia award. Nine Sanremo appearances by 2018, with a third place in 1988 and top-ten finishes in 1987, 2011 and 2018. Alongside the songs he has built a long second career in radio. Luciano Pavarotti recorded his song Il canto, and his own albums include Cuore d'acciaio, Musica e parole and Roma e de tutti. The radio work has run through Radio2 Social Club, and he has written for the theatre and published two books, the autobiographical Non perderti niente and Cento storie per cento canzoni.