2023-08-22 18:46:00
Toto Cutugno, the singer-songwriter who performed at the Sanremo Festival in 2013, conducted by Fabio Fazio, accompanied by the Red Army Choir with a of his greatest hits, ‘L’italiano’, a song translated into various languages that has sold millions of records worldwide. He was born in Tuscany in Tendola, a fraction of Fosdinovo (Massa) in 1943 Salvatore Cutugno, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, producer (in the 70s and 80s alongside Adriano Celentano), among the singers who boasts the record for the most attendance at the Sanremo Festival (15) with only one victory in 1980 with ‘Solo noi’ (in the top ten of the best-selling singles of the year) and an important palmares at the Eurovision Song Context in 1990 with ‘Insieme’.
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He approaches music at a very young age guided and supported by his father Domenico, a naval non-commissioned officer originally from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Me) and trumpet player. Little Salvatore is self-taught. Drum, drums, accordion (cheaper, less bulky than a piano). His unstoppable rise begins from adolescence. Small groups, formations of friends (Toto & the Rockers, Toto and the Tati, Albatros) and then the beginning of his career as a soloist. His first real success dates back to 1977. ‘Donna mia’ will become the theme song of Mike Bongiorno’s program ‘Scomriamo?’, in the same year he signs ‘Soli’ for Adriano Celentano, for months stable at first place in the sales charts.
The 80s were full of meetings and work, above all authorial activity alongside Johnny Hallyday, Mirelle Mathieu, Dalida, Sheila, Miguel Bosé (‘Olympic Games’ winner of the Festivalbar), Luis Miguel (‘We kids of today’). The popular and international turning point in 1983. he Participates in the Sanremo Festival with the song ‘L’italiano’ written with Cristiano Minellono. He comes fifth but wins hands down with the vote of the popular jury.
Not only singer-songwriter and musician (imitated by Gigi Sabani), Toto Cutugno leads on Rai, from 1989 to 1992, ‘Piacere Raiuno’ and subsequently ‘La vela d’oro’ with Raffaella Carrà and Fabrizio Frizzi, then there will be ‘Stasera mi butto. .. and three! paired with Giorgio Faletti and Domenica in in the autumn of 1992. He also writes songs for the great cinema of Sergio Castellito (the song ‘Gli amori’ is just mentioned in a scene by Penelope Cruz in a scene from the film ‘Don’t move’) .
Despite the first symptoms of the disease (January 2007) Toto Cutugno does not stop performing around the world and participates in concerts and charity evenings, he who in the Baltic countries had been called ‘The Italian Legend’, ambassador of Italian musical culture in the world, was not in Ukraine, at the express request of a group of deputies, led by Viktor Romanyuk, who on 15 March 2019 had asked to prevent the Italian artist from entering their country.
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