{"id":6613,"date":"2023-08-23T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2023-08-23T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:22:11","slug":"singer-songwriter-toto-cutugno-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/singer-songwriter-toto-cutugno-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer songwriter Toto Cutugno dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>(ANSA) &#8211; ROME, AUG 22 &#8211;<\/em><\/strong> Singer songwriter Toto Cutugno, best known for his worldwide 1983 hit song, &#8220;L&#8217;Italiano&#8221;, died at the age of 80 on Tuesday, his manger Danilo Mancuso told ANSA.<br>Cutugno, whose birth name was Salvatore, died in Milan&#8217;s San Raffaele Hospital &#8220;after a long illness, which had become more serious in the last few months&#8221;, said Mancuso.<br>Born in Tuscany to a Sicilian father, Cutugno also won the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest with the song &#8220;Insieme: 1992&#8221;.<br>He won the Sanremo Song Festival twice.<br>In 2019 a group of Ukrainian musicians tried to stop him performing in Kyiv saying he was a Russian sympathiser like fellow veteran southern Italian star Al Bano.\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/lifestyle\/arts\/2023\/08\/22\/singer-songwriter-toto-cutugno-dies-at-80_a15833a2-50da-4a2d-8b57-8cf7c6c8432c.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer songwriter Toto Cutugno, best known for his worldwide 1983 hit song, &#8220;L&#8217;Italiano&#8221;, died at the age of 80 on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1489,579,1488,1487],"class_list":{"0":"post-6613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-dies-at-80","9":"tag-litaliano","10":"tag-singer-songwriter","11":"tag-toto-cutugno"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cutugno-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}