Death of Toto Cutugno, singer of L’Italiano, at the age of 80

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2023-08-22 21:36:47


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DISAPPEARANCE – The author, composer and performer died on Tuesday at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

Toto Cutugno will no longer sing. The one who asked to let him sing in The true Italian)title to the planetary success which praised its origins, went away at the age of 80, to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan where he was hospitalized, tells us The Republic . It was his manager Danilo Mancuso who announced the sad news to Ansa, the Italian press agency: “ After a long illness, the singer’s condition has worsened in recent months.did he declare.

Songwriter, famous representative of Italian music in the world, Toto Cutugno, achieved success with Italian, in 1983 when, with his guitar, he arrived on the stage of the Sanremo festival, temple of Italian variety, to sing the first lyrics “Let me sing with the guitar in my hand…/Lasciatemi cantare, con la chitarra in mano…».

He also composed for many French singers in the 1970s, including Michel Sardou, Joe Dassin and Johnny Hallyday.

Born on July 7, 1943 in Tuscany, Salvatore Cutugno aka Toto Cutugno, founded his first group Toto ei tati at the age of 19, before continuing a few years later with Les Albatros. The formation will then release a first success, Africa, better known in its French version under the title of Indian summer performed by Joe Dassin. Meanwhile, he will compose for the illustrious Adriano Celentano, Soli, a song that remained at the top of the charts for several months. In 1990, he won Eurovision with Together, 1992, a song for Europe. The composer and performer has participated fifteen times in the Sanremo Song Festival, a real institution in the peninsula, which every year captivates millions of fans. Un Italiano vero…

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