Umbria is a region of modern central Italy. It is one of the smallest Italian regions and the only peninsular region that is landlocked. Its capital is Perugia. Assisi and Norcia are historical towns associated with St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Benedict.

Umbria is bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. Mostly hilly or mountainous, its topography is dominated by the Apennines, with the highest point in the region at Monte Vettore on the border of the Marche, at 2,476 m (8,123 ft), and the Tiber valley basin, with the lowest point at Attigliano, 96 m (315 ft). It is the only Italian region having neither coastline nor common border with other countries.

The Tiber river forms the approximate border with Lazio, although its source is just over the Tuscan border. The Tiber's three principal tributaries flow southward through Umbria. The Chiascio basin is relatively uninhabited as far as Bastia Umbra. About 10 km (6 mi) further it joins the Tiber at Torgiano. The Topino, cleaving the Apennines with passes that the Via Flaminia and successor roads follow, makes a sharp turn at Foligno to flow NW for a few kilometres before joining the Chiascio below Bettona. The third river is the Nera, flowing into the Tiber further south, at Terni; its valley is called the Valnerina. The upper Nera cuts ravines in the mountains; the lower in the Chiascio-Topino basin is in a fairly large floodplain.

Folco Quilici (born 9 April 1930) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1952 and 2005.

Antonio Ferrari (September the 20th, 1957), commonly known as Dj Ralf is an Italian Disc Jockey, music producer and founder of LaTerra, an independent music label. He was born in a small Italian town called Bastia Umbra and was renamed as Ralf by his friends and parents since most tender age. After working in small discos of his province (Perugia), he landed at the Cocoricò where he is still resident DJ on the first and third Saturdays every month.

In addition to the Cocoricò he has worked and still works in many other famous clubs either in Italy or abroad: Adrenaline, AlterEgo, Area City, Divinae Follie, Echoes , Ethos Mama, Fluid, Goa, Guendalina, Hollywood ( Pervert party), Maffia, Matis, Mazoom, Metropolis, Muretto, Pervert, Pleigine, Red Zone, Tenax , Villa delle Rose, Amnesia di Ibiza, Cavo Paradiso (Mykonos), Crobar (Miami) to join the Winter Music Conference, Ministry of Sound and Vertigo(London), Pacha (Ibiza), Roxy (Amsterdam), Space (Ibiza)...

He regularly cooperates with the organization of the "Folies de Pigalle" on the first and third Sundays every month, with "Colazione da Tiffany" and since '94 he has been cooperating with the Made in Italy Ibiza either in Italy but chiefly in Ibiza. In 2001 he was regular guest at the Ministry of Sound in London during the party called "Rulin'".

Pino Daniele (born 19 March 1955) is an Italian vocalist, composer, and musician, whose influences cover a wide number of genres, fusing pop, blues, jazz, Italian and Middle eastern music into his own unique brand of world music.

Graduating in accounting, Pino began his musical career in the band "Batracomiomachia", then in 1976 he became the bass player with the Napoli Centrale, where he met James Senese. Later in 1976 Claudio Poggi, producer of EMI Italian, listened to a demo tape containing various original tracks by the then young Daniele, deciding to offer a deal with the label. Already mid-year, he recorded a 45-rpm vinyl containing the tracks "Che calore" (originally titled "Ca Calore", being his trademark Neapolitan dialect) and "Fortunato".

"Terra mia", his debut album of 1977 containing tracks from the previous single, demonstrates the singer's deep connection with the Neapolitan and Mediterranean traditions, both in the music and in the lyrics, which sometimes cover songs and popular customs typically Neapolitan. Among the most successful tracks of the album are without doubt "Terra mia", but particularly "Na tazzullella 'e cafè" (A small cup of coffee), highly played by Renzo Arbore on his show "Alto gradimento" (High satisfaction) and "Napule è" (Naples is…), which in time would become a true manifesto for the author (who wrote it at just 18 years of age) and for the entire city of Naples.

Tullio De Piscopo (born 24 February 1946, Naples, Italy) is an Italian drummer and singer.

De Piscopo was born the son of a drummer in an orchestra. In 1969 he moved to Turin, where he began a successful career as drummer for several popular artists, including Gerry Mulligan, Ástor Piazzolla, Aldemaro Romero, Gato Barbieri, Mina, Lucio Dalla, Pino Daniele, Manu Chao and others. In 1974-1975 he was a member of New Trolls Atomic System.

He also wrote scores for several movies. His most successful song is "Andamento lento", which won Festivalbar in 1988. Outside Italy he became famous with his 1983 hit single, "Stop Bajon (Primavera)". It reached #58 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1987. His song "Radio Africa" was a collaboration with the singer Mory Kanté.