 (The surname "Fontana" was arbitrarily chosen out of the phone book).In the early 1950s he started his own jazz band, "Fontana and his Trio", with piano, bass and drums, and around that time he met Leda, who would become his wife and with whom they would have four children, Luigi, Roberto, Andrea and Paola.At the end of the 1950s, he turned to light music and began his solo career.