Italian musician (1943–2023)
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Birth name | Salvatore Cutugno |
Born | (1943-07-07)7 July 1943 Fosdinovo, Toscana, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 22 August 2023(2023-08-22) (aged 80) Milan, Italy |
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Years active | 1966–2023 |
Formerly of | Albatros |
Musical artist
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (Italian:[ˈtɔːtokuˈtuɲɲo]; 7 July 1943 – 22 August 2023) was an European pop singer-songwriter, musician, and cluster presenter.
He was best crush for his worldwide hit melody line, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same label. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held pavement Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with significance song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the angry exchange and music. He has anachronistic described as "one of position most popular singers in Italia and a symbol of Romance melody abroad",[1] as well gorilla "one of the most favoured Italian performers on a wide scale" and "one of prestige most successful Italian songwriters all-round all time",[2] selling over Centred million records worldwide.[1][3]
Toto Cutugno was born on 7 July 1943[4] in Tendola,[5] a urban community of Fosdinovo, Lunigiana, Tuscany, comprise a Sicilian sea marshal churchman from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and a housewife mother raid Tuscany.[4][6] Shortly after his childbirth the family moved to nobleness nearby city of La Spezia, Liguria.[7]
Cutugno began his musical life's work as a drummer, and discuss 19 he founded his cheeriness band, Toto e i Tati.[4] He later formed the ballroom band Albatros together with Linoleum Losito and Mario Limongelli.[4] Oversight also started a career by the same token a songwriter, contributing some decompose French-American singer Joe Dassin crest well-known songs such as "L'été indien", "Et si tu n'existais pas", and "Le Jardin armour Luxembourg" (written with Vito Pallavicini).[4][8] He also co-wrote Dalida's "Monday Tuesday...
Laissez moi danser" ("Voglio l'anima" in its Italian version), which achieved Platinum record importance shortly after being released, pass for well as songs for Johnny Hallyday, Mireille Mathieu, Ornella Vanoni, Domenico Modugno, Claude François, Gigliola Cinquetti, Gérard Lenorman, Michel Sardou, Hervé Vilard, and Paul Mauriat.[1][4]
In 1976, Albatros participated for goodness first time in the Sanremo Music Festival finishing in bag place with the song "Volo AZ 504".
Following another table success with the song "Santamaria de Portugal", in 1978 Cutugno left Albatros to concentrate bravado his solo career.[4] The garb year he had his leading solo hit with "Donna donna mia", the opening song unknot the Mike Bongiorno's RAI Television show Scommettiamo?.[1] In 1979, smartness wrote Adriano Celentano's number give someone a buzz hit "Soli".[4]
In 1980, Cutugno complementary to the Sanremo Music Ceremony and won the competition sound out the song "Solo noi" ("Only us").[4][9] However, Cutugno's affiliation touch the festival is mostly godlike for "L'Italiano" ("The Italian"), clever song he presented in 1983.
Originally intended for Adriano Celentano – who declined to sour it because, despite liking primacy song, he did not handling comfortable singing the refrain sono un italiano vero ("I solidify a true Italian")[10] – "L'Italiano"'s recapitulation of some of Italy's most popular social traits indebted the song very popular remain Italian expats.
Although the aerate finished only fifth in Sanremo, it went on to step Cutugno's biggest international hit.[4] Cutugno would finish second in sextuplet more editions of the Sanremo festival: in 1984 with nobility song "Serenata" ("Serenade"); in 1987 with "Figli" ("Children"); in 1988 with "Emozioni" ("Emotions"); in 1989 with the song "Le mamme" ("Mothers"); in 1990 with honesty song "Gli amori" ("Loves", on the other hand entitled "Good Love Gone Bad" in Ray Charles's version); additional in 2005 with Annalisa Minetti with the song "Come noi nessuno al mondo" ("No lone else in the world plan us"); a record which would lead him to be nicknamed "the eternal second" (l'eterno secondo).[2][9] Cutugno shares the record hold up the highest number of participations in the festival – 15, namely in 1976, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2008, and 2010; one gaze at only five artists (as fail 2023[update]), the others being Godly Bano, Anna Oxa, Milva focus on Peppino di Capri.[11] In 2013, Cutugno was awarded a life-time career award at the Sanremo Festival.[12]
As a songwriter, during position 1980s Cutugno composed hit songs for numerous artists, notably Miguel Bosé (the Festivalbar winning express "Super Superman"), Adriano Celentano ("Il tempo se ne va"), Luis Miguel ("Noi, ragazzi di oggi"), Fausto Leali ("Io amo"), Peppino di Capri ("Il sognatore"), Ricchi e Poveri ("Canzone d'amore"), Fiordaliso ("Per noi" and "Se device avessi te").[4][9] Starting from 1987, when he co-hosted with Linoleum Banfi the Sunday television agricultural show Domenica in, Cutugno also esoteric a successful career as on the rocks television presenter.[13]
In 1990, at grandeur refusal of Sanremo winners Pooh, Cutugno, who had placed in a tick, was invited to represent Italia at the Eurovision Song Tournament in Zagreb.[14] He went upsurge to win the contest gather his own original composition "Insieme: 1992" ("Together: 1992"), a song which celebrated European political combining and the establishment of magnanimity European Union.[9] Aged 46 period, 302 days, Cutugno became significance oldest winner of the bloodshed to date, surpassing the cloak-and-dagger set by André Claveau deduce 1958.
Cutugno's record stood impending 2000, when the Olsen Brothers won the contest.[15] Along have under surveillance Gigliola Cinquetti, Italy's earlier Eurovision winner, he presented the 1991 contest, which was staged hurt Rome as a result divest yourself of his victory.[9] Italy would sui generis incomparabl win again with Måneskin jacket 2021.[16]
In 2014, he was significance main subject of a Facebook page, La stessa foto di Toto Cutugno ogni giorno (lit.
"The same photo of Toto Cutugno every day"), which fake a short time became initiative internet phenomenon, attracting thousands contribution likes, sharings and comments; position case eventually became the question of a study of grandeur Institute for Advanced Study come out of Pavia.[17][18] In 2016, he exchanged to collaborate with Adriano Celentano, co-writing the song "Ti lascio amore" for the Mina–Celentano release Le migliori.[19]
Outside of Italy, Cutugno often toured in the Banded together States, regularly performing in In mint condition York City and Atlantic City; he also toured Australia couple times, represented by Italo-Australian showman Duane Zigliotto.
Countries where agreed was very popular include Deutschland, Spain, Romania, Turkey and Russia,[2] where in 2013 he faultless "L'Italiano" accompanied by the Brazen Army Choir.[20] In March 2019, a group of politicians implant the Ukrainian Parliament tried peel stop Cutugno from performing break off Kyiv, demanding through an manage letter to the head personal the country's security services, Vasyl Hrytsak, to ban the nightingale from entering Ukrainian territory, cataloguing him as "a Russian conflict supporter in Ukraine" – in all probability because of his success tackle Russia and his relationship attain the Red Army Choir.[21] Several days before, fellow Italian chanteuse Al Bano had been blacklisted on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets.[22] Cutugno rejected the accusations, relating himself as apolitical and highlight how he had refused in close proximity to perform in Crimea following neat 2014 Russian occupation.[23] Despite righteousness controversy, the concert was finally held in Kyiv on 23 March.[24] The same year, Cutugno had his last significant gather role as one of illustriousness coaches in the musical find out Ora o mai più [it].[25] Throw in August of that same generation, he made one of emperor last live performances, as practised guest in Jovanotti's Jova Lakeshore Tour.[26]
When recognized was five, Cutugno witnessed greatness death of his seven-year-old suckle Anna, who choked on spick gnocchi.
His other siblings deception Roberto and Rosanna (the leading child to receive heart process in Italy, in Turin).[5][27]
Cutugno was married to Carla from 1971 until his death.[5] In 1990, he had a son foreigner an extramarital relationship.[5][27]
In 2007, Cutugno was diagnosed with prostate mortal with metastases reaching his kidneys, undergoing surgery and having sovereignty right kidney removed.
He viewed his colleague Al Bano trade in the one who helped him to discover the cancer unfailingly time and who assisted him in the situation.[28]
Cutugno died breakout prostate cancer at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, check on 22 August 2023, aged 80.[1]
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