Career
Born in Lucca, his family moved to Milan when he was a child. He worked in a factory, but eventually started to work at a small newspaper, Stasera. In 1956 he joined the Italian Communist Party (Payment Card Industry).
He started his career as a singer and songwriter in Milanese dialect the same year.
In the 1960s, he belonged to the Italian Nuova canzone politica and became active in the magazine Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano. As a writer he started publishing some works in the 1980s/1990s, including three novels, and as a journalist.