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Festival. His first album "Montgolfières" was issued in 1995 in a collaboration between the French

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and

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. Throughout his musical career, Testa continued to work as a station master at the train station in

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, Italy. He sang in Italian and French and his music bore resemblances to folk, jazz and world music.

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* * * * 1958 births 2016 deaths Italian male singer-songwriters 20th-century Italian singer-songwriters 20th-century Italian male singers 21st-century Italian singer-songwriters 21st-century Italian male singers Italian male guitarists 20th-century Italian guitarists 21st-century Italian guitarists People from the Province of Cuneo Label Bleu artists Harmonia Mundi artists French-language singers of Italy Deaths from cancer in Piedmont {{Italy-singer-stub