Paolo Pietrangeli was an Italian singer-songwriter, film director, and screenwriter who was born in Rome, Italy, in 1945. He achieved early professional recognition in the late 1960s and is famous for the track “Contessa” (1966), which was adopted as an anthem of the 1968 Italian protests. Pietrangeli collaborated with the Istituto Ernesto de Martino and the Italian Communist Party, contributing to the movement of social and political protest through music. His discography includes the studio recordings Mio caro padrone domani ti sparo (1969), Karlmarxstrasse (1974), I cavalli di Troia (1975), Lo sconfronto (1976), and Cascami (1979). In the 1990s, Pietrangeli released the studio recordings Canti, contesse & conti (1994) and Un animale per compagno (1996), followed by C’è poco da ridere (2001). His career also included directing feature films such as Porci con le ali (1977) and documentaries including Bianco e nero (1975). Pietrangeli died in Rome in 2021.
