![Calcutta: Un giro in Europa 2024, 11 June 2024, Olympia, 28 boulevard des Capucines, 75009 Paris, France (digital, 50.80cm x 33.87cm) [© Danilo Samà ]](/_next/image?url=%2Fimg%2Fartists%2Fcalcutta.webp&w=384&q=75)
About Calcutta
Calcutta is the unlikely figurehead of the Italian indie boom, a songwriter from Latina whose disarmingly simple, melancholic pop songs sparked a movement in the mid-2010s. Releasing on the Bomba Dischi label, his albums Mainstream and Evergreen turned bedroom melodies into festival singalongs and influenced a whole generation of young Italian artists. His everyman image and gift for an earworm chorus made the indie sound commercially mainstream.