Davide Van De Sfroos

An interesting case of success due mainly to word of mouth, Italian singer/songwriter Davide Van De Sfroos sold thousands of records before the critics and the big networks started noticing him -- and, even most strikingly, he did so singing songs in the dialect of a very small region, thus transforming himself from a local to a national phenomenon. Born in Monza on May 11, 1965, and soon moving to Azzano di Mezzegra, a small town on Lake Como, Davide Bernasconi had his first real music experiences in the post-punk outfit Potage. Then, in the early '90s, he started his own b...