Toto Cutugno, famous Italian singer-songwriter, died on August 22, 2023 at the age of 80.
Toto Cotugno: cause of death, illness
The cause of death is one long illness with which the singer-songwriter had been battling for some time. In fact, Cotugno died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan where he was hospitalized due to the worsening of this disease. In 2007, he had defeated a prostate cancer which had caused him to lose his right kidney and have difficulty standing.
Wife, children
Cutugno had been married since 1971 to Carla, the couple had no children. From an extramarital affair the singer-songwriter had Nicholasborn in 1989..
Biography
Salvatore Cutugno is born July 7, 1943, in the city of Fosdinovo, in northern Tuscany. A drummer as a young man, he turned to songwriting in the early 1970s and went on to compose hits for European stars such as Joe Dassin, Mireille Mathieu, Dalida, Johnny Halliday, Michel Sardou, Claude François and Gigliola Cinquetti. He played his songs with the band Albatross and, in 1976, the band released its self-titled debut album.
In the same year, the Albatross (performing the song “L’Albatross”) they finished third at the Sanremo Festival. They returned again in 1977, performing “Gran Premio”, since then Cutugno has visited the event on no fewer than a dozen other occasions. Now a solo artist, he won only once, in 1980 with “Solo Noi”. However, he will rank second in 1984 with “Serenata”, in 1987 with “Sons”, in 1988 with “Emotions” and in 1989 with “Le Mamme”. (“Mothers”). A prolific recording artist throughout the 1980s, L’Italiano in 1983, Mediterraneo and Cofanetto in 1987.
1990 saw Cutugno return to the San Remo event, performing alongside Ray Charles. Cutugno’s “Gli Amori” (recorded by Charles as “Good Love Gone Bad”) placed second yet again, but a bigger triumph was just around the corner, with “Together 1992”, a song celebrating the imminent unification of Europe’s accession to the EEC, won theEurovision Song Contest.
His next album, Insieme, understandably remains Cutugno’s best known. Production of him slowed down during the 1990s and beyond. It’s not easy to be men from 1992 followed by Canzoni Nacoste.
2005 saw Cutugno back in the spotlight when he joined singer Annalisa Minetti to perform “Come Noi Nobody Al Mondo”, the title track from his latest album.
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