- Father of Cristiano De André (born in 1962 to him and his first wife) and Luisa Vittoria 'Luvi' De Andrè (born in 1977 to him and then companion Dori Ghezzi). Grandfather of Fabrizia, twins Francesca & Filippo and Alice De Andrè. Former father-in-law of Sabrina La Rosa and Carmen De Cespedes.
- Friend of Paolo Villaggio.
- He's portrayed by Luca Marinelli in Fabrizio De André: Principe libero (2018).
- De André first played the violin, then the guitar, and he joined a number of local jazz bands, as jazz was his "first love".
- He has sold 65 million records in his career, earning a place in the ranking of the most successful Italian artists.
- Considered one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian songwriters, he is also known by the name of Faber that his friend Paolo Villaggio gave him, with reference to his predilection for Faber-Castell's pastels and pencils, as well as for the assonance with his name.
- The Rolling Stone Italia magazine included his album Creuza de mä in fourth place in the ranking of the best Italian albums.
- Many texts of his songs tell stories of marginalized, rebels and prostitutes, and are considered by some critics to be real poems, so much so that they have been included in various scholastic anthologies of literature since the early seventies.
- In almost forty years of artistic activity, De André recorded fourteen studio albums, plus some songs published only as singles and then reissued in anthologies.
- In 1997 he was awarded the Lunezia Prize for the musical-literary value of the piece "Smisurata prayer".
- Together with Bruno Lauzi, Gino Paoli, Umberto Bindi and Luigi Tenco he is one of the exponents of the so-called Genoese School, a group of artists who profoundly renewed Italian pop music.
- He is the artist with the most awards from the Tenco Club, with six Plaques and a Tenco Award.
- De André died in Milan on 11 January 1999, at 2:30 am. Two days later, he was buried in his native town, Genoa; the ceremony was attended by a crowd of about 20,000. He is buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in the De André family chapel.
- The popularity and high artistic level of his songbook led some institutions, after his death, to dedicate streets, squares, parks, theaters, libraries and schools to him.
- When the Second World War broke out, the De André family had to seek refuge on a country farm near Revignano, in Piedmont.
- During his career he has collaborated with cultural personalities and important artists of the Italian music and cultural scene, including Gian Piero Reverberi, Nicola Piovani, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Ivano Fossati, Mauro Pagani, Massimo Bubola, Álvaro Mutis, Fernanda Pivano and Francesco De Gregori.
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