Edoardo De Angelis (singer-songwriter)
Edoardo De Angelis (born 24 December 1945) is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer. Life and career. Born in Rome, De Angelis graduated from the Liceo classico Torquato Tasso and studied modern letters at the Sapienza University of Rome. Since the late 1960s he started performing at Folkstudio, where he befriended Francesco De Gregori, of whom he produced the first two albums. In 1974 De Angelis was among the founding members of the vocal group Schola Cantorum, with whom he also collaborated as a songwriter, but after 4 albums he left the group to  reprise his solo activity. He is best known for the song is "Lella", a ballad he composed and first recorded with his childhood friend Stelio Gicca Palli as "Edoardo e Stelio" and which later became a hit in a cover version of Edoardo Vianello and Wilma Goich. De Angelis was the artistic director of the labels D'Autore and Cantare In Italiano. He was also a columnist for the magazine "" and a radio host for Radio 1.