Luca Carboni (born 12 October 1962) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He debuted in 1981 as guitarist in the band Teobaldi Rock, publishing his first solo album in 1984. He is also a painter and carpenter.
In 1985 he released Forever, which sold 70,000 copies and entered the Italian Top Ten for some weeks. In 1987, he released the album Luca Carboni, which contains one of his most popular songs, “Silvia lo sai”, a story of adolescence and drug. This song and the other hit “Farfallina” led the album to sell up to 700,000 copies, reaching the top of the Italian charts. The same album was re-issued in Spanish in 1989 and was followed by two tours. In 1989 he released the album Persone silenziose launched by the single “Primavera”.
