Franco Mussida

Italian composer and singer

Mussida on stage with PFM, Modena 2007

Franco Mussida (born in Milan, Italy, on 21 March 1947) is an Italian guitar player, composer, and singer.

Biography

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

• Racconti della tenda rossa (1991)
• Accordo (1995)
• Sinfonia Popolare per 1000 Chitarre (1997)

Books

• 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

1. PFM at Ondarock
2. PFM at Planando
3. Centro Professione Musica
4. "Empatismo / Scuola Empatica: Movimento Letterario-Artistico-Filosofico e Culturale Sorto in Italia Nel 2020". 22 February 2021.