| Garbo | |
| Birth Name: | Renato Abate |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Occupation: | Singer-songwriter |
Renato Abate (born 25 April 1958), best known as Garbo, is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of the most important exponents of Italian new wave music.
Born in Milan, Garbo made his debut in 1981 with A Berlino... Va Bene, an album influenced by the David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. The eponymous title-track was released as a single and it was met with critical success.[1] Garbo's two subsequent albums were well received,[1] but the peak of his career came in 1984 with the song "Radioclima". Presented at the Sanremo Music Festival it won the Critics Jury Award.[1] [2] Garbo returned to Sanremo the following year, with the song "Cose veloci".[2] In 1993, he founded his own record label, Discipline, with which he released his later works.[1]
In 2006, Garbo was honored by a tribute album, ConGarbo, where some of his most popular songs were covered by protagonists of the Italian independent music scene such as Baustelle, Delta-V, Krisma, Zu and Meg (former members of 99 Posse), Soerba (Luca Urbani and Gabriele D'Àmora), Andy (from Bluvertigo) and Boosta (from Subsonica).[3]
In 2014, he acted in the film-comedy Sexy Shop.