Eugenio Finardi - also known as "Gege" - (July 16^th 1952) is a very famous rock and pop singer in Italy.With Angelo Branduardi, Edoardo Bennato, Lucio Battisti and Lucio Dalla, he represented Italian music during the seventies. With Francesco Guccini, he is the typical leftist committed singer and songwriter. Life Born in Milan (Italy) in 1952, his parents are an Italian sound director (his father) and an American opera singer (his mother). So he's native speaker fo English and Italian as well. He joined Italian Comunist Party (PCI) during the early seventies: a lot of his songs (the first records, first of all) contains social and political items: "Musica ribelle" ("Rebel Music"), and "Saluteremo il Signor Padrone" ("We'll greet our Sir, the Employer") for example. He also was a drug addict, in the same period, but his girl - friend (now, his wife) succeeded in getting him out of the drug racket. Many years later, he wrote a song