La voce del padrone is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Italian in 1981. The album followed L'era del cinghiale bianco (1979) and Patriots (1980), which signed a return by Battiato to a more pop-oriented style. La voce del padrone, besides being Battiato's first pop success, was also the first Italian LP to sell more than one million copies.