Vasco Rossi

Vasco Rossi reads to me as the gloriously unruly heart of Italian rock. A man who started as a motorcycle racer, screenwriter, and DJ before pouring everything into music, ending up with thirty albums and over 250 songs written, has an output that frankly defies arithmetic. What I love is the range between his warm, mononymous Il Blasco persona and the raw poet who sings life's shadows as honestly as its light. Even with Telegatto and Nastro d'Argento honors on the shelf, he never sanded down his edges. Born in 1952 and still going, he is the kind of artist who refuses to fade, and I find that genuinely inspiring.

Name (English)

Vasco Rossi

Name (Japanese)

ヴァスコ・ロッシ

Reading

ゔぁすこ・ろっし

Born

February 7, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Origin

Zocca, Province of Modena, Italy

Occupation

motorcycle racer / screenwriter / disc jockey / singer / composer

Awards & achievements

• Telegatto
• Targa Tenco
• Premio Lunezia
• Nastro d'argento for best original song
• Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature
• Nettuno d'oro

• Official sitehttps://www.vascorossi.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/vascorossi/
• Xhttps://x.com/vascorossi
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco%20Rossi
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17171

Tags

• Province of Modena
• motorcycle racer
• screenwriter
• disc jockey

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.