Riccardo Cocciante (also known as Richard Cocciante) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer, born in Saigon, active since the 1970s and author of notable albums and the musical Notre-Dame de Paris.

Born in Saigon; Italian singer-songwriter and composer; active since the early 1970s; credited for albums such as Mu and Concerto per Margherita and for the musical Notre-Dame de Paris.

DeBaser reviews present Cocciante as a versatile singer-songwriter whose early work flirts with progressive rock and whose 70s–80s output contains several standout songs. Reviewers praise albums like Mu and Concerto per Margherita while noting occasional weaker tracks. Overall reception on DeBaser is favorable.

For:Fans of Italian singer-songwriters, listeners of 1970s progressive/pop, and musical-theatre enthusiasts.

 Mu is, just like Atlantis, a presumed lost continent, but on the Pacific side of the Americas, and like Atlantis, scholars and theorists have been debating for about two centuries about the mysterious existence of this other piece of land that sank, roughly the size of Africa, even presuming that Easter Island was what emerged from the continent, thus the highest peak.

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 It’s 1975, and after the success of "Bella senz'anima," Cocciante turns to the wizard of electronics, Vangelis, not yet the legend he would become later but already an established musician, in an attempt to Europeanize and modernize his sound.

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 Having gifted us "Celeste nostalgia" is already much, perhaps too much.

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