| Diamante | |
| Cover: | Diamante (song)_resize.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Zucchero Fornaciari |
| B-Side: | Il mare (impetuoso al tramonto salì sulla luna e dietro una tendina di stelle...) |
| Released: | 6 April 1990 |
| Genre: | Pop, Blues |
| Label: | Polydor/PolyGram |
| Prev Title: | A Wonderful World |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Madre dolcissima |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
"Diamante " is a 1989 song composed by Francesco De Gregori (lyrics), Zucchero Fornaciari, Mino Vergnaghi and (music) and performed by Zucchero Fornaciari.
The song, a portrait of the Italian post-war and of the ordinary life in the Po Valley countryside of the time, is dedicated to Diamante Arduini Fornaciari, the grandmother of the singer.[1] [2] Zucchero asked his friend De Gregori to write the lyrics as he feared to be overly involved, and to compose something corny.[3]
A track of the 1989 album Oro Incenso & Birra, the song was first released as a single in 1990, and was re-released in 1991 in an English-language duet version with Randy Crawford,[4] which was included on Crawford's 1992 album Through the Eyes of Love. In 1994, Zucchero recorded a Spanish-language version of the song, with lyrics translated and adapted by Fito Páez. Artists who covered the song include Mia Martini, Anna Oxa and Fabio Concato.
| Peak position | |
| Belgium[5] | 9 |
| Europe[6] | 46 |
| France[7] | 39 |
| Germany | 20 |
| Norway[8] | 7 |
| Netherlands[9] | 18 |
| UK[10] | 44 |
| Switzerland[11] | 11 |