Riccardo Fabbriconi (born 10 February 2003), known professionally as Blanco (commonly stylized in all caps as BLANCO), is an Italian singer and rapper. In 2022, he won the Sanremo Music Festival 2022 alongside Mahmood with the song "Brividi", and will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin.
Riccardo Fabbriconi was born in Brescia on 10 February 2003, to a father from Rome and a mother from Lombardy, and raised in Calvagese della Riviera, a small town on lake Garda. He spent most of his childhood between his hometown, Brescia and Desenzano del Garda, where he attended school.
On 9 June 2020, he released his EP Quarantine Paranoid on SoundCloud. After being signed by Universal, he debuted with the studio album Blu celeste on 10 September 2021, which peaked at number one of FIMI's album chart and was certified quadruple platinum. His most successful song to date, "Mi fai impazzire" with Sfera Ebbasta, topped the Italian singles chart for eight weeks and was certified sextuple platinum in Italy.