2023-08-23 07:53:56
The Italian singer-songwriter and composer Toto Cutugno, winner of Eurovision in 1990 and author of the well-known hymn ‘L’italiano’, has died this Thursday at the age of 80 at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. Cutugno was hospitalized due to illness.
The singer’s representative has confirmed to the media that Cutugno has died “after a long illness that had worsened in recent months.” It has not been reported what ailment it was.
The musician was the author of one of the most beloved and representative musical hymns of Italy in the world, ‘L’italiano’. The song was presented at the 1983 edition of the Sanremo Festival, where it was a regular.
Later, with his song ‘Insieme: 1992’, he became the second Italian winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990, a feat that had not been seen since 1964 with the participation of Gigliola Cinquetti and that would not be repeated until 2021 with the Roman group. Maneskin.
Salvatore Cutugno was born in the Tuscan town of Fosdinovo on July 7, 1943, during World War II. Shortly after his family would end up moving to the Liguria region.
From a very young age, he showed an aptitude for music and, encouraged by his family, in the sixties he began to play drums in the group Toto ei Tati and later formed the band Albatros, in which he also sang.
At the end of the seventies he began his solo career, conquering the public with albums like I want the soul (1979), My music (1981) y The Italian (1983).
With more than one hundred million records sold, he is one of the most internationally relevant Italian musicians, although he also wrote lyrics for other greats in the song Italian like Adriano Celentano, among others.
In 1980, he won the Sanremo Festival with ‘Solo noi’, although he would return to the legendary Italian competition on up to fifteen occasions, both solo and in duo with other artists.
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