Biography
Gigi Botto
Real name: Mario Battaini
Effective period / Period of releases: 1964 - 1974
(Milan October 6 1931 - April 26 2000) Italian keyboardist and accordionist, but also multi-instrumentalist, present on the music scene since the fifties. He was also arranger and conductor. His records were released under the SAAR Records or Joker label, the second sub-label of the former, of which he had been artistic director for many years.