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Tommaso Ottomano

Italian director and musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ115586823 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tommaso Sabatini (born 6 August 1990), known professionally as Tommaso Ottomano, is an Italian record producer, songwriter, musician, singer, and filmmaker, best known for his frequent collaborations with Lucio Corsi and Chiello, and for his work as a music video director for various artists, including Måneskin. He co-wrote and produced Corsi's song "Volevo essere un duro", which placed second at Sanremo Music Festival 2025 and represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, where he also performed as guitarist and back vocalist.

Early life and education

Born in 1990, Sabatini grew up in Porto Ercole, a small fishing village on Monte Argentario in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany. His father is a carpenter, and his mother owns a clothing store. From an early age, he developed a passion for music—studying singing and guitar—as well as cinema, also experimenting with photography before creating his first videos.

He began high school at the technical institute for surveyors in Grosseto but switched to the vocational school for tourism after one year.

Career

Blind Fool Love

In 2007, Sabatini founded the band Blind Fool Love, serving as lead vocalist and guitarist under the name Scary, alongside Piero Cini on bass and Marco Ronconi on drums. Initially producing songs in English and covers, they later shifted to writing original Italian lyrics, blending influences from Italian singer-songwriters with a post-hardcore and emo style. Their first official single, "Vampiro", was released in November 2009.

In 2011, the band signed with Sony Music and released their debut EP Il pianto, which peaked at 5 of the FIMI Albums Chart.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tommaso Ottomano” is italian director and musician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tommaso, Ottomano and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1990, 2025, 2007, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-08-06. For this dossier, Tommaso, Ottomano and Italian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115586823. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2025, 2007 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tommaso Ottomano” 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.