Gianfranco Baldazzi (28 July 1943 – 25 June 2013) was an Italian lyricist, record producer, author and journalist.

Born in Bologna, Baldazzi started his career as a stage actor.

[1] Active from the second half of the 1960s, he wrote songs for Mina, Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Ornella Vanoni, Peppino di Capri, Ron among others.

[1] As an author, Baldazzi wrote several books about Italian music history, some biographies[1] and a historical novel set in the Middle Ages, "Il Silenzio della Cattedrale" (The Silence of the Cathedral).

He also collaborated with several magazines and newspapers, and with the TV-channel RAI International.