Bindi received classic training and wrote music that was apparently of the traditional genre: through his interpretation, he privileged poetry and style in a noble comparison with Italian popular songs.
Leader of the Genoese school of music, Paoli wrote some of the most beautiful Italian songs of the century. His love songs, both tormenting and beyond time, have become part of the repertory of the most important Italian performers.
Using everyday language, Tenco sang about love and feelings. His songs are irreprehensible on the musical level as they conjugate the existential strife of French chansonniers and the unease felt towards respectability that prevailed over the musical scene during the Sixties.