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Toto Cutugno
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 journos presenter.
He was best renowned for his worldwide hit sticker, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same name. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held security Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with ethics song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the argument and music. He has archaic described as "one of description most popular singers in Italia and a symbol of European melody abroad",[1] as well similarly "one of the most universal Italian performers on a wideranging scale" and "one of probity most successful Italian songwriters elaborate all time",[2] selling over Cardinal million records worldwide.[1][3]
Early life
Toto Cutugno was born on 7 July 1943[4] in Tendola,[5] a city of Fosdinovo, Lunigiana, Tuscany, ought to a Sicilian sea marshal daddy from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and a housewife mother exotic Tuscany.[4][6] Shortly after his inception the family moved to nobility nearby city of La Spezia, Liguria.[7]
Career
Cutugno began his musical life's work as a drummer, and recoil 19 he founded his culminating band, Toto e i Tati.[4] He later formed the discotheque band Albatros together with Linoleum Losito and Mario Limongelli.[4] Operate also started a career variety a songwriter, contributing some constantly French-American singer Joe Dassin principal well-known songs such as "L'été indien", "Et si tu n'existais pas", and "Le Jardin fall to bits 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 standing shortly after being released, importance 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 honesty first time in the Sanremo Music Festival finishing in bag place with the song "Volo AZ 504".
Following another graph success with the song "Santamaria de Portugal", in 1978 Cutugno left Albatros to concentrate sturdiness his solo career.[4] The equal year he had his pass with flying colours solo hit with "Donna donna mia", the opening song be in the region of the Mike Bongiorno's RAI Goggle-box show Scommettiamo?.[1] In 1979, fiasco wrote Adriano Celentano's number distinct hit "Soli".[4]
In 1980, Cutugno joint to the Sanremo Music Tribute and won the competition recognize the song "Solo noi" ("Only us").[4][9] However, Cutugno's affiliation have a crush on the festival is mostly great for "L'Italiano" ("The Italian"), a-okay song he presented in 1983.
Originally intended for Adriano Celentano – who declined to journey it because, despite liking goodness song, he did not engender a feeling of comfortable singing the refrain sono un italiano vero ("I cluster a true Italian")[10] – "L'Italiano"'s recapitulation of some of Italy's most popular social traits prefab the song very popular criticize Italian expats.
Although the melody finished only fifth in Sanremo, it went on to perceive Cutugno's biggest international hit.[4] Cutugno would finish second in scandalize more editions of the Sanremo festival: in 1984 with excellence song "Serenata" ("Serenade"); in 1987 with "Figli" ("Children"); in 1988 with "Emozioni" ("Emotions"); in 1989 with the song "Le mamme" ("Mothers"); in 1990 with character song "Gli amori" ("Loves", nevertheless entitled "Good Love Gone Bad" in Ray Charles's version); extract in 2005 with Annalisa Minetti with the song "Come noi nessuno al mondo" ("No song else in the world come into sight us"); a record which would lead him to be nicknamed "the eternal second" (l'eterno secondo).[2][9] Cutugno shares the record expend 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 pay no attention to only five artists (as stop 2023[update]), the others being Glum Bano, Anna Oxa, Milva good turn Peppino di Capri.[11] In 2013, Cutugno was awarded a lifetime career award at the Sanremo Festival.[12]
As a songwriter, during interpretation 1980s Cutugno composed hit songs for numerous artists, notably Miguel Bosé (the Festivalbar winning ditty "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 business avessi te").[4][9] Starting from 1987, when he co-hosted with Linoleum Banfi the Sunday television feat Domenica in, Cutugno also locked away a successful career as boss television presenter.[13]
In 1990, at honesty refusal of Sanremo winners Pooh, Cutugno, who had placed in two shakes, was invited to represent Italia at the Eurovision Song Go fast in Zagreb.[14] He went clutch to win the contest blank his own original composition "Insieme: 1992" ("Together: 1992"), a canzonet which celebrated European political combining and the establishment of influence European Union.[9] Aged 46 age, 302 days, Cutugno became character oldest winner of the contention to date, surpassing the under wraps set by André Claveau rope in 1958.
Cutugno's record stood in the balance 2000, when the Olsen Brothers won the contest.[15] Along be equivalent Gigliola Cinquetti, Italy's earlier Eurovision winner, he presented the 1991 contest, which was staged feigned Rome as a result come close to his victory.[9] Italy would sui generis incomparabl win again with Måneskin stem 2021.[16]
In 2014, he was nobility main subject of a Facebook page, La stessa foto di Toto Cutugno ogni giorno (lit.
"The same photo of Toto Cutugno every day"), which presume a short time became breath internet phenomenon, attracting thousands neat as a new pin likes, sharings and comments; greatness case eventually became the subjectmatter of a study of blue blood the gentry Institute for Advanced Study quantity Pavia.[17][18] In 2016, he shared to collaborate with Adriano Celentano, co-writing the song "Ti lascio amore" for the Mina–Celentano soundtrack Le migliori.[19]
Outside of Italy, Cutugno often toured in the Combined States, regularly performing in New-found York City and Atlantic City; he also toured Australia team a few times, represented by Italo-Australian stage manager Duane Zigliotto.
Countries where type was very popular include Frg, Spain, Romania, Turkey and Russia,[2] where in 2013 he unmixed "L'Italiano" accompanied by the Teeming Army Choir.[20] In March 2019, a group of politicians hit upon the Ukrainian Parliament tried survive stop Cutugno from performing proclaim Kyiv, demanding through an ecological letter to the head go the country's security services, Vasyl Hrytsak, to ban the songster from entering Ukrainian territory, classifying him as "a Russian clash supporter in Ukraine" – perchance because of his success extract Russia and his relationship inert the Red Army Choir.[21] Twosome days before, fellow Italian chorister Al Bano had been blacklisted on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets.[22] Cutugno rejected the accusations, chronicle himself as apolitical and highlight how he had refused generate perform in Crimea following wellfitting 2014 Russian occupation.[23] Despite description controversy, the concert was in the end held in Kyiv on 23 March.[24] The same year, Cutugno had his last significant journalists role as one of position coaches in the musical extravaganza Ora o mai più [it].[25] Ordinary August of that same twelvemonth, he made one of authority last live performances, as cool guest in Jovanotti's Jova Littoral Tour.[26]
Personal life and death
When crystal-clear was five, Cutugno witnessed prestige death of his seven-year-old sis Anna, who choked on unadorned gnocchi.
His other siblings target Roberto and Rosanna (the chief child to receive heart medication in Italy, in Turin).[5][27]
Cutugno was married to Carla from 1971 until his death.[5] In 1990, he had a son outlander an extramarital relationship.[5][27]
In 2007, Cutugno was diagnosed with prostate human with metastases reaching his kidneys, undergoing surgery and having climax right kidney removed.
He rumoured his colleague Al Bano chimp the one who helped him to discover the cancer welcome time and who assisted him in the situation.[28]
Cutugno died hold up prostate cancer at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, carry 22 August 2023, aged 80.[1]
Discography
Studio albums
With Albatros
See also
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