Riccardo Cocciante in Riccione

Riccardo Cocciante is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer, born in Saigon in 1946 and raised in Rome. His catalogue includes “Bella senz’anima,” “Margherita” and “Se stiamo insieme.” He also wrote the music for Luc Plamondon’s musical Notre-Dame de Paris, first staged in Paris in 1998. At the 1991 Sanremo Music Festival, he performed “Se stiamo insieme” and won the competition. Decades later, he returned to theatres and arenas for retrospective headline concerts, presenting songs from his recording and theatre catalogue under the title Cocciante canta Cocciante.