His beginnings as a street musician in the mid-1970s and his popular success in the 1980s and 1990s with songs such as Roma Spogliata, Via Margutta, L’Amore Rubato, and Portami a Ballare; the songs he wrote for Fiorella Mannoia, Luciano Pavarotti, Gianni Morandi, and Paola Turci; his qualities as an ironic, empathetic, and cultured entertainer — the foundation of many of his hosting roles, above all Radio2 Social Club, a program airing since 2010 on Rai, which Luca created, hosts, and co-writes, and in which he — accompanied live by the Social Band — duets with guests in the studio. Over the years, this has been joined by other notable hosting roles, including the Primo Maggio concerts in Taranto and Rome, Il mondo a 45 giri on Rai3, and the prestigious 2024 Premio Marisa Bellisario on Rai1.
Also in 2010 came his first significant theatrical experience, Attenti a quei due, a show written and performed together with Neri Marcorè.
In 2018, immediately after participating in the Festival di Sanremo, he released Roma è de tutti, a handcrafted work in which the Roman voice plays like the language spoken and heard on the streets of the Capital.
In 2021, he published his autobiographical novel Non perderti Niente with Mondadori. In 2023, Luca released the album La verità sull’amore, featuring original songs written for the theatrical show La verità vi prego sull’amore, which toured with Stefano Massini. The following year, in Cento storie per cento canzoni, a book published by Nave di Teseo, he recounts the stories behind, around, and within one hundred songs that we have all sung. This book inspired the eponymous show: a tour combining songs, storytelling, and projections that will continue through autumn 2025.
Recently, he has also explored cinematic language, appearing as an actor in a cameo role in Diamanti.