Lucio Battisti was an influential Italian singer-songwriter and composer whose work shaped Italian popular music in the late 1960s and 1970s. Between 1969 and 1994, he released 18 studio albums, many of which were also recorded in Spanish, English, French, and German. Known for his intensely private nature, Battisti rarely performed live and withdrew from public life in the late 1970s, choosing to communicate only through his recordings.