Gianmaria Testa

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Gianmaria Testa

| image = Gianmaria Testa-63.jpg

| caption = Gianmaria Testa in 2013

| birth_date = {{birth date|1958|10|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cavallermaggiore, Piedmont, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|3|30|1958|10|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Alba, Piedmont, Italy

| genre =

| occupation = Singer, songwriter

| website = {{URL|www.gianmariatesta.com}}

}}

Gianmaria Testa (17 October 1958 – 30 March 2016) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.{{cite news |last=Fegiz |first=M.L. |url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/16_marzo_30/addio-gianmaria-testa-chansonnier-piemontese-8de59c3e-f651-11e5-b728-3bdfea23c73f.shtml |title=Morto Gianmaria Testa, lo chansonnier piemontese |language=Italian |work=Corriere della sera |date=2016-03-30 |accessdate=2016-03-30 }}

Testa began musical performances in 1990 and in the early 1990s, he won two consecutive top prizes at the Recanati Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/artists/artist.aspx?id=637|title=Artist : Gianmaria Testa - Festival International de Jazz de Montréal|publisher=montrealjazzfest.com|accessdate=2016-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413231616/http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/artists/artist.aspx?id=637|archive-date=2016-04-13|url-status=dead}} His first album "Montgolfières" was issued in 1995 in a collaboration between the French Label Bleu and Harmonia Mundi.Discogs: [https://www.discogs.com/artist/791143-Gianmaria-Testa?filter_anv=0&type=Releases Gianmaria Testa] Throughout his musical career, Testa continued to work as a station master at the train station in Cuneo, Italy. He sang in Italian and French and his music bore resemblances to folk, jazz and world music.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gianmaria-testa-mn0000653616/biography |title=Gianmaria Testa |author=Marisa Brown |publisher=AllMusicm|date= |accessdate=15 October 2017}}