Since his childhood Roberto faced the experience of poverty and illness, and later, of drugs and prison. He is the son of an unmarried woman, he suffered from poliomyelitis and has lived for many years in various institutes.

Roberto has a passion for music since he was a child. His artistic career starts when he was sixteen. He took part in several music entertainments and various pop music festivals and was the backer of some "big". He has performed in the streets of Italian and foreign cities getting consent and audience.

But the love for Jesus has changed radically his life. As he himself explains: “In 1984, after many troublesome situations, thanks to my coming closer to the Virgin Mary and thanks to a pilgrimage to Medjugorie, I rediscovered life's values and I started to come closer to the Church and to the Sacraments. Since then I have started to wish to translate into music what I had experienced . I wanted to become an instrument for evangelisation, unpretentiously but offering my personal experience as a reference to talk about God’s greatness” (interview to Giancarlo Padula). All his artistic production is a message of love and hope: he successfully sings God to young who never heard about Him, and singing nowadays’ reality he reminds us that the way to brotherhood never has to stop.

Roberto is fully engaged in his music and the commitment for his family. He is married with Paola, and is the father of two beautiful girls: Mariastella and Mariachiara. Beside love, Roberto and Paola share another nice experience. They have created an Internet site www.informusic.it, a portal for Christian evangelization, to let young people around the world know news, artists biographies, photos, information about concerts, specialised books and record's reviews about Christian music.

As Roberto said in an interview to Carlo Climati, “I express myself in singing. Every one of us must answer the Lord’s call offering one’s capabilities, in order to be useful for others. We must meet the young, trying to understand their problems and helping them in finding the sense of life.” Furthermore: “Every time we speak about the Lord and the marvellous things he has created, and transmit the joy of trying to walk beside Him, He is with us. Therefore, a song can surely become a prayer. But, obviously, it does not substitute personal prayer and the participation to the Sacraments. It is a further help to get near to the Word of the Lord, a way to arrive at the Gospel.”

This “vision” makes us understand his artistic path to a fantastic range of songs full of commitment originated in real life and far from easy talk, that gave origin in 1998 to his first collection "Roberto Bignoli Vol.1", followed in 2001 by the new multimedia CD "Ho bisogno di te" (I need you) that is the title of the new "ethnic" song dedicated to God as Father along with "Parole e amore" (Words and love) that is the result of the astonishment at the huge evidence of charity of our century.

In December 2001 in Washington he was given the prestigious international prize UCMVA Unity Award (as best artist and for the best song of the year, “I need you”) and in 2003 the first acknowledgement of the "Golden Graal", the Italian Award dedicated to evangelization.

He has given concerts all over Italy as well as in France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia, Spain, Malta, Canada, U.S.A., Central and Latin America, Argentina, Brazil and Australia.

Roberto has been the promoter of international festivals of Christian music and art director of international compilations. He took part in GMG of Paris in 1996, Rome (Tor Vergata, August 2000), of Toronto in 2002 and again of Cologne in 2005.

On October 16, 2005 he was officially invited by the Polish National Television TVP to take part in the Gran Gala and Concert dedicated to John Paul II, given in the square of the Warsaw Castle with a presence of 30,000 people.

The powerful rock ballad "Là c'è un posto" (There is a place), a support and an invitation to find one's way for those who are involved in deceptive and humbling choices, won for the second time the UCVMA Unity Awards in Minnesota the same year. And in 2007 he was awarded again by UCVMA in Phenix (Arizona) as the best inetrnational artist for his song “Dulcis Maria - Totus tuus”.

At the end of that year in Warsaw he was invited as international guest to the official Gala of Intergracia for his contribution to the fight against architectural barriers and the integration of disabled people in the social and political life of Poland, at the presence of the Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

(taken from the official site of Bignoli: www.robertobignoli.it) 

The passion for music of Roberto is well illustrated by his large production. Among the first songs of the early ‘80s we can mention "Se la luna" (If the moon) and "Canzone per Laura" (Song for Laura), presented in all private TV stations, particularly in the popular broadcasts "Pop Corn" of Canale 5, "Lorelai" and Ninnanà ninnanò". Over the years '83-'84 he settled down in Paris for some very successful months.

In '86 we have his first record, "Regina della Pace" (Queen of Peace), published in two issues as a result of his deep friendship with the mystic Maria Siccardi.

In 1987 he releases the first album of his new production called "Canzone per Maria" (Song for Mary) entirely dedicated to the experience of his new devotion for Mary.

"Ho visto la Croce" (I saw the cross) in 1988 bears witness to the discovery of the centrality of Christ and the Cross as keynote of his personal history.

In 1990 he records a testimonial-concert, "Una storia da raccontare" (A Story to Tell) as a proof of his new feeling.

"Porta Cristo" (Bring Christ) of 1991 comes out of the ardour and the freshness of his profession and includes some of Roberto's most significant songs: "Ballata per Maria" (Ballad for Mary), that has later become the live motive of Radio Maria Italian station, "Porta Cristo" (Bring Christ), a funky song that communicates the impulse of announcing Christ where social relegation and human decay seem to have no hope left, "Diglielo tu" (You tell him that) a rock piece inspired by a real event.

In the same year Roberto publishes a book, "In concerto sotto la Croce" (In Concert Under the Cross) as testimonial of a live concert given in Rome in a crowd of young people. His new biography is now in progress.

In 1996 he publishes with Edizioni Paoline "Tempo di Pace" (Time of Peace) a work full of musicality and strong topics, with the famous "Concerto a Sarajevo" (Concert in Sarajevo) written during the war in Bosnia and broadcast everywhere, particularly by underground stations of the former Balkan republic, "Un uomo" (A Man) and the new edition of "Oltre la collina" (Beyond the Hill) written in '83 before his conversion, a sort of precognition of what was going to happen to him. …

In 1998 the collection "Roberto Bignoli Vol.1" is issued, followed in 1999 by the single "Blues cielo blu" (Blues the Sky is Blue) that includes the driving piece of blues with the same title.

2001 is the year of the new multimedia CD "Ho bisogno di te" (I need you) that is the title of the new "ethnic" song dedicated to God as a Father along with "Parole e amore" (Words and love) that is the result of the astonishment at the huge evidence of charity of our century.

His latest record in 2005 is the brand new single for radio "Là c'è un posto" (There is a place) and four more pieces. One is "Dimmi, mio Signore" (Tell me my Lord), a dramatic question to God arisen by the astonishment for the present world-wide situation of disorders and epochal disasters. Another song is the rock ballad "Là c'è un posto" (There is a place), a support and an invitation to find one's way for those who are involved in deceptive and humbling choices. The former song came out in Australia within an international compilation whose income is destined to help people victim of the recent tsunami, and the latter, in Poland, is a collection of Christian Polish artists, enclosed with in the prestigious musical magazine "Ruah".

The song "Là c'è un posto" (There is a place) on November 12, 2005 is awarded in Minnesota U.S.A. the prestigious international prize UCMVA Unity Award for the best song of the year. For this single Roberto worked for arrangement side by side with Paolo Carta, guitarist of Eros Ramazzotti, Gianni Morandi, Laura Pausini and Max Pezzali, and the musician Francesco Isola was the artistic producer.

(For a larger illustration of Roberto Bignoli’s production go to: http://www.robertobignoli.it/new/discografia.htm)