Riccardo Tesi is an Italian musician. He specializes in folk music. His instrument is the diatonic accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

 or melodeon. He has founded or recorded with a number of groups, including Banditaliana and Ritmia. Tesi has released several solo albums and has also worked with such musicians as Elena Ledda

Elena Ledda

Elena Ledda is a Sardinian singer.Born near Cagliari, she pursued conservatory studies in oboe and voice. Ledda has a dramatic soprano voice suitable for opera, which she originally performed as an artist, but was attracted by the folk singing of her native Sardinia and has chosen a career...

, Piero Pelu

Piero Pelù

Piero Pelù is an Italian rock singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the famous Italian rock band Litfiba...

, Ivano Fossati

Ivano Fossati

Ivano Alberto Fossati is an Italian pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and percussionist born in Genoa. Fossati has several albums to date and has worked with such musicians as Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi,Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Francesco De Gregori and...

, Ornella Vanoni

Ornella Vanoni

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 and Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...

, among others.

As leader

• Riccardo Tesi (1993) Il Ballo Della Lepre (re-release)http://www.last.fm/music/Riccardo+Tesi/Il+Ballo+Della+Lepre Fréa Records/Music & Words}}}}}}

External links

• The official Riccardo Tesi web site