Raphael Gualazzi in Carpi

Raphael Gualazzi is an Italian pianist and singer-songwriter, born in Urbino in 1981, whose music draws on jazz, swing, blues and pop. He is best known for “Follia d’amore,” also recorded in English as “Madness of Love,” which he performed for Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest and took to second place. The Reality and Fantasy Tour followed in 2011, bringing his piano-led repertoire to European theatres and jazz festivals. He later mounted the Happy Mistake Tour, then returned to the Sanremo Music Festival in 2014 with The Bloody Beetroots to perform “Liberi o no.”