- Author of songs like "La donna cannone", "La valigia dell'attore", "Alice", "Il bandito e il campione", "Rimmel" and "Titanic".
- In 2002 prepared two great live tours: one with Ron, Pino Daniele and Fiorella Mannoia. The second with the folksinger Giovanna Marini (with the album "Il fischio del vapore") based upon traditional Italian songs.
- De Gregori was born in Rome to a middle-class family, to Giorgio and Rita Grechi, and he spent some of his youth in Pescara before returning to the capital.
- De Gregori made his debut as a professional singer in 1972 with Theorius Campus, in collaboration with Venditti.
- In Italy, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.
- Influenced by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and the Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio de André.
- His elder brother, Luigi, was a musician and had a personal career with the name of Luigi Grechi (the mother's surname), chosen later to avoid confusion with the more famous Francesco.
- He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet, although he prefers to be identified simply as "artist".
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