Gianmaria Testa (17 October 1958 – 30 March 2016) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

[1] Testa began musical performances in 1990 and in the early 1990s, he won two consecutive top prizes at the Recanati Festival.

[2] His first album "Montgolfieres" was issued in 1995 in a collaboration between the French Label Bleu and Harmonia Mundi.

[3] Throughout his musical career, Testa continued to work as a station master at the train station in Cuneo, Italy.

He sang in Italian and French and his music bears resemblances to folk, jazz and world music.