Dalla was born in Bologna, Italy. He began to play the clarinet at an early age, in a jazz band in Bologna, and became a member of a local jazz band called Rheno Dixieland Band, together … 展开

Dalla's recording debut as a soloist took place in 1964, with the release of the 45 rpm-single "Lei (non è per me)" (B-side: "Ma questa sera"). In the 1970s, Dalla started a collaboration with the Bolognese poet Roberto Roversi. Roversi wrote the lyrics to Dalla's next … 展开

Dalla's discography includes twenty-two studio albums for the Italian market, a Qdisc [it], nine live albums, various collections and several albums for the foreign market. Here is the list of Lucio Dalla albums:
• 1999 (1966) 展开

Dalla was outed as gay after his funeral, at which his longterm associate (and, likely, domestic partner) Marco Alemanno, with whom he had shared a house, spoke; he had not publicly … 展开

Affected by the end of the collaboration, Dalla decided to write the lyrics of his next albums himself. The first album of this new phase was Com'è profondo il mare (1977), in which Dalla was accompanied by members of future pop band Stadio.
In 1979, his popularity … 展开

Dalla featured as an actor in seventeen films and was musical director for seventeen others. This is a list of DVDs of music concerts.
• Live@RTSI – 20 dicembre 1978 (2001)
• Retrospettiva (2003) 展开

• Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, "On a proposal from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers" – 27 December 1986 展开