2023-08-22 20:45:00
Italian singer Toto Cutugno died on Tuesday August 22 at the age of 80. He was particularly known for his title “L’Italiano”, released in 1983.
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[Mis à jour le 22 août 2023 à 20h45] Toto Cutugno, the unforgettable performer of the tube The Italiandied at the age of 80, in the San Raffaele hospital in Milan “after a long illness”, indicated, this Tuesday August 22, 2023, the transalpine press agency Ansa, which echoed the manager of the artist. According to the latter, “the singer’s condition had worsened in recent months”. The funeral will be held Thursday in Milan, said The Corriere della Sera. He leaves behind his wife Carla and a 28-year-old son, Nico, from an extramarital relationship.
The singer had notably composed for many French artists, including Michel Sardou (Singing), Johnny Hallyday, Sheila, Dalida, or even Gérard Lenorman. With its title Together : 1992a song about Europe, Toto Cutugno won Eurovision in 1990.
Born on July 7, 1943, Salvatore Cutugno, known as Toto Cutugno, achieved worldwide success in 1983 with the title A real Italian (The Italian). The hit finished number one on the charts in Italy and Switzerland, and number two in France. The music video for the song, shot on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, is a succession of shots about Italy and Italians: we see the singer eating pasta and flirting with the waitress. According to the newspaper The Corriere della Serahe has sold more than 100 million records during his career.
In 1990 he became the second Italian to win the Eurovision Song Contest, with his song Together : 1992, a song about Europe. The singer-songwriter has also participated 15 times in the Sanremo song festival, a real institution, even going so far as to sing there with Ray Charles, in 1990.
He composed for many French singers, especially in the 1970s: by Michel Sardou (Singing) to Mireille Mathieu via Gérard Lenorman, Joe Dassin (Indian summer), or even Johnny Hallyday. He also composed Adriano Celentano’s first song.
“After a long illness, the singer’s condition had worsened in recent months”, said his manager Danilo Mancuso, this Tuesday, August 22. The singer had been hospitalized for several weeks for oncological treatment. The health of the singer-songwriter has deteriorated lately. He said he had his right kidney removed: “I can’t walk much. And I play on a stool. For 3 hours on my feet, I can’t play.”
In 2007, the singer had notably undergone surgery and then therapy, after prostate cancer had been detected in him.
“Hello to Toto Cutugno, un vrai italien” are the first words with which the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said goodbye to the singer. Among the other artists who have saluted his memory, we find the singer Laura Pausini, who speaks of“an artist, a man and a good and kind Italian”.
The Eurovision Song Contest paid tribute to him on the social network X (formerly Twitter), writing a simple “Rest in Peace Toto Cutugno”accompanied by the lyrics of the song with which he won the competition.
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