Franco Battiato (born March 23, 1945) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter.

He is considered one of the most original personalities in Italian music from the 1970s to now. Battiato’s songs are dreamy, controversial collages of images and sensations, very experimental and convoluted, rich of esoteric, philosophical and East Asian religious themes.