Giuseppe "Gipo" Farassino (11 March 1934 – 11 December 2013) was an Italian singer, songwriter, musician and politician.

Most of his songs were in Piedmontese language[3] and were directly inspired by French chanson and chansonniers.

Farassino, who was also active as an actor, obtained his first major success in 1968 with Avere un amico, a collection of his most well-known songs in Italian.

[4] Contextually, Farassino became a friend of Fabrizio De André[5] and started to be active in the Italian Communist Party (PCI).

The party, which took the name of "Autonomist Piedmont", was soon involved in the formation of a federation of Northern Italian regionalist parties, Lega Nord, and was transformed into Lega Nord Piemont (LNP).