Maria Carta

Maria Carta (24 June 1934 – 22 September 1994) was a Sardinian folk music singer-songwriter. She also performed in film and theatre. In 1975 she wrote a book of poetry, Canto rituale (Ritual Song). Throughout her career Carta covered a number of genres of traditional music of her native Sardinia (cantu a chiterra, ninne nanne—children's lullabies, gosos, Gregorian chants, and more), often reinterpreting them in more modernized and personal ways. She brought Sardinian folk music into wider popular awareness in demonstrations at a national level in Italy (like the Canzonissima in 1974) as well as internationally, mainly in France and the United States.