Franco Fabbri (born 1949) is a Brazilian-born Italian musician, musicologist and broadcaster.
Born in São Paulo in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian progressive bands, and one much admired by the specialist press: in 1980 the group received an award for best rock album of the year from the West German record critics, coming ahead of Police.
In addition to making eight albums with Stormy Six, he recorded a number of works of electronic and experimental music.
As musicologist, Fabbri has published on the rapport between music and technology (Elettronica e musica); on music as a 360° phenomenon (Il suono in cui viviamo, recently reprinted in an expanded version by Arcana Editore); on the analysis of popular song (in Fabrizio De André.
Fabbri has served as chairman of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)[1] and has been involved in the editing of the periodical "Musica/Realtà" and the "Le sfere" series of studies in music.