Italian singer Gianmaria Testa (1958-2016) came to success late in life, first
in France, after working as a stationmaster in Cuneo, Piedmont. His first album,
Montgolfières, appeared in 1995, when he was thirty-seven. Over the next twenty
years, he produced seven albums of jazz-tinged songs influenced by South
American rhythms. First signed to the tôt Ou tard label with the album
Extra-Muros in 1996, he only gained recognition in his own country with the
following album, Lampo (1999), while Il Valzer di un Giorno (La Valse d'Un
Jour), released in 2000, was aimed at his two favou...