Toto Cutugno will no longer sing. The one who asked to let him sing in L’Italiano (vero), a title with worldwide success which praised his origins, went away at the age of 80, to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan where he was hospitalized, La Repubblica tells us. It was his manager Danilo Mancuso who announced the sad news to Ansa, the Italian press agency: “After a long illness, the singer’s condition has worsened in recent months,” he said. .
Songwriter, famous representative of Italian music in the world, Toto Cutugno, had success with L’Italiano, in 1983 when, with his guitar, he arrived on the stage of the Sanremo festival, temple of Italian variety, to sing the first words “Let me sing with the guitar in hand…/Lasciatemi cantare, con la chitarra in mano…”.
He also composed for many French singers in the 1970s, including Michel Sardou, Joe Dassin and Johnny Hallyday.
Born on July 7, 1943 in Tuscany, Salvatore Cutugno alias Toto Cutugno, founded his first group Toto e i tati at the age of 19, before continuing a few years later with Les Albatros. The group will then release a first success, Africa, better known in its French version under the title of Indian Summer interpreted by Joe Dassin. In the meantime, he will compose for the illustrious Adriano Celentano, Soli, a song that remained at the top of the charts for several months. In 1990, he won Eurovision with Insieme, 1992, a song for Europe. The composer and performer has participated fifteen times in the Sanremo Song Festival, a real institution in the peninsula, which every year captivates millions of fans. Un Italiano vero…
