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Paolo Preite

Italian singer-songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ17364690
Source-derived summary

Paolo Preite (born 1985) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He was born in 1985 in Frascati and began with composing of music at age of fifteen. His debut album Don't Stop Dreaming was produced by Fernando Saunders and featured drummer Kenny Aronoff among others. It was recorded in various studios in Ostrava, Los Angeles and Rome.

Discography

Don't Stop Dreaming (2015)

An Eye on the World (2018)

Videography

I wanna hold your hands feat. Fernando Saunders & Kenny Aronoff - directed by Andrea Aronica (2013)

Where did you go feat. Fernando Saunders - directed by Federico Mudoni (2015)

Don't stop dreaming - directed by Francesco Albanese (2015)

Can't find a reason feat.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Paolo Preite” as italian singer-songwriter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2015, 2018, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-08-02. The account is most persuasive where Paolo, Preite and Italian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as italian singer-songwriter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17364690. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2015, 2018 and 2013.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Paolo Preite” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.