Francesco Gabbani - Peace & Love

What this video is

Released June 2022, months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 'Peace & Love' was written before the conflict yet landed as an inadvertently prescient pacifist statement. Gabbani, a multiple Sanremo Festival winner and Italy's Eurovision 2017 representative, used the video to literalise the song's intergenerational solidarity by casting genuine elderly bocce players at a Milan community club. The song samples…

Why it matters

Represents a strand of Italian pop that synthesises cantautorato lyrical seriousness with accessible summer-pop production — a tradition descending from De André and Battisti but refracted through post-Sanremo media infrastructure. The community-cast video aesthetic echoes a broader European…

The director

Fabrizio Conte is a director based in Milan, Italy, with operations also in New York. He has over a decade of experience directing music videos for major Italian artists and has expanded into short film and documentary formats. Credits include work for…