- Member of Italian pop group Ricchi e Poveri.
- Two children, Alessio and Federica.
- He was founding member of the group Ricchi e Poveri. They were active since the late 1960s, and they have sold over 20 million records. The band got their name from Roman songwriter Franco Califano who once joked that they were "spiritually rich and financially poor".
- It was February 2013 when his boy was found lifeless in his house in via Capolungo in Nervi, in the east of Genoa. Franco, with the other members of Ricchi e Poveri, was about to take the stage of the Ariston theater, to collect the Lifetime Achievement Award in Sanremo, when a phone call informed him that his son had disappeared.
- The musician of Ricchi e Poveri, who died on October 18, 2022 at the age of 80, suffered a very serious mourning in 2013. And that pain that devastated his life, so much so that he left the band in 2016: "Alessio is my angel, I think that we will meet again », he had said on TV, in tears, a few years ago.
- Franco Gatti had had health problems for several years and retired from the music scene in 2013, after the death of his son Alessio. (his son Alessio, killed at the age of 23 by a mix of alcohol and heroin). That pain destroyed the life of the musician, enough to push him, in 2016, to leave the band.
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