- Has 3 children: Alice (b.1981) and Irene Fornaciari (b.1983) with his first wife; Adelmo Blue (b.1999) with Francesca Mozer, his companion since 1992.
- Disappointed with his solo career, in 1984 he temporarily moved to San Francisco in California,.
- His father, Giuseppe Fornaciari, and mother, Rina Bondavalli, came from rural families.
- He has won numerous awards, including four Festivalbar, nine Wind Music Awards, two World Music Awards, six IFPI Europe Platinum Awards, and a Grammy Award nomination.
- He spent most of his childhood in the seaside town of Forte dei Marmi (Province of Lucca, Tuscany).
- Between 1992 and 2003 was the regular cast of the charity concerts Pavarotti & Friends organized by Luciano Pavarotti, where also performed along Pavarotti and B.B. King, for the children in Bosnia, Liberia, Guatemala, Kosovo, Cambodia, Tibet, Angola and Iraq.
- In his career, spanning more than three decades, Fornaciari has sold over 60 million records around the world, and internationally.
- His music is largely inspired by gospel, soul, blues and rock music, and alternates between Italian ballads and more rhythmic R&B-boogie-like pieces.
- Adelmo Fornaciari was born 25 September 1955 in Roncocesi, a frazione (small village) near Reggio Emilia in Italy.
- He is credited as the "father of Italian blues", introducing blues to the big stage in Italy. He is one of the few European blues artists who still enjoys great international success.
- In 1994 Zucchero was the only Italian artist to perform at the 25th anniversary edition of the Woodstock festival.
- At a young age, he was the goalkeeper of A.C. Reggiana 1919.
- He enjoys the Italian countryside lifestyle.
- His stage name is the Italian word for "sugar", as his elementary teacher used to call him.
- At the age of 12 or 13, he discovered American soul and blues music thanks to an African-American friend who was studying in Bologna and lived near his home.
- He has collaborated and performed with many famous artists, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian May, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, B. B. King, Sting, Bono, Dolores O'Riordan, Paul Young, Peter Gabriel, Luciano Pavarotti, and Andrea Bocelli.
- Zucchero boasts a great number of collaborations both nationally and internationally with musicians, singers and authors.
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