Ivan Graziani embodied the Italian guitar language — lyrical yet electric.
Alongside figures like Ricky Portera, Massimo Luca, Franco Mussida, Nico Di Palo and Pino Daniele, he turned the guitar into storytelling.
Later, Phil Palmer and Carlos Alomar would bring that same voice into the international sound of Battisti and Concato — proof that Italian songwriting could speak through strings as eloquently as through words.