Franco Mussida (born in Milan, Italy, on 21 March 1947) is an Italian guitar player, composer, and singer.
He is best known as a founder and prominent member [1] of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), established in the early 1970s and still active. An acclaimed guitar player, [2] in 1984 he founded the Centro Professione Musica, a popular and jazz music academy, which is widely recognized as one of the most important examples in its genre both in Italy and abroad. [3] Besides working with PFM, Mussida has collaborated with a number of other musical acts and released three solo albums. He is a member of the Empathic Movement, which arose in the South of Italy in 2020. [4]