*** Lucio Dalla *** Tiziano Ferro (nice songs, beautiful voice) *** Mina *** Lucio Battisti Enrico Ruggeri Elio e Le storie tese (a band) *** Ivano Fossati (beautiful lyrics and songs) Daniele Silvestri

Andrea Bocelli.

Mi piace molto Gianni Morandi. Le sue canzoni sono molto semplici per chi studia l'italiano.

Here are some Italian bands/singers I've found: ~883 ~Almamegretta ~Articolo 31 ~Audio 2 ~Avion Travel ~Bluvertigo ~Cattivi Pensieri ~Elio e le Storie Tese ~Gemelli Diversi ~Negrita ~Subsonica ~Le Vibrazioni ~Zero Assoluto ~Lacuna Coil ~Sonohra ~Lost ~Finley ~Dari ~Jovanotti ~Ligabue ~Vasco Rossi ~Negramaro ~Max Pezzali ~Fabrizio De Andre ~Lucio Battisti ~Zucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari ~Aurelio Fierro ~Adriano Celentano ~Andrea Bocelli ~Francesco Tosti ~Alberto Rabagliati ....there are so many!! This list is full of different genres because I don't know what type of music you were looking for. If you will be more specific, I can shorten the list to the type of genre you would like to listen to (rock, traditional, pop, etc.) There are a lot of lists online of Italian bands and popular Italian songs (try yahoo answers ;) And if you want to know which bands are on the top of the charts in Italy, you can always check out MTV.it, or look at Italiancharts.com. Hope this helped! :)

Fabrizio de André