For Franco de Vita, a man who has spent the past 25 years performing, composing and recording music, albums are sacred.

They’re works of art, products of much love and hard work.

So it’s not surprising to find the Venezuelan singer-songwriter and pianist today with mixed feelings over the adverse effects that the Internet has had on the global recording music industry in recent years.

After all, he - like nearly all singers everywhere - has been directly hit by the radical changes in the music business with the force of a Tomahawk missile....