Alessandro Raina

Alessandro Raina (born 29 June 1977) is an Italian singer/songwriter. Former journalist and wannabe writer, he embraced the path of songwriting by chance. In 2003, Alessandro took part in the recording sessions of a track which will be later featured in the album Punk... Not Diet! by Giardini di Mirò, one of his own favourite bands. Right after this collaboration, the band asked him to lend his voice to the whole LP, to which he contributed also as main lyricist. His personal style features a heavy use of metaphors, twilight-intima, literary-poetic and ethical-political inspired lyrics, with mixed references - mainly in his Italian songs - to current events, classical mythology and history. Alessandro's self declared references are the...