Tributes flow in for Toto Cutugno

Anthony Zara — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:25:07 +0000

(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 22 – Tributes flowed in Tuesday for Toto Cutugno, the symbol of Italy around the world with his 1983 hit L’Italiano, after he died after along illness aged 80.
Fellow singer songwriter Angelo Branduardi called him “an artist who really represented Italy while singer Pupo said “farewell dear and beloved friend” and TV host Fabio Fazio said “his passing leaves a great void”.
Premier Giorgia Meloni echoed the chorus of his biggest hit by calling him a “true Italian”.

Singer songwriter Toto Cutugno dies at 80

Anthony Zara — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:22:08 +0000

(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 22 – Singer songwriter Toto Cutugno, best known for his worldwide 1983 hit song, “L’Italiano”, died at the age of 80 on Tuesday, his manger Danilo Mancuso told ANSA.
Cutugno, whose birth name was Salvatore, died in Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital “after a long illness, which had become more serious in the last few months”, said Mancuso.
Born in Tuscany to a Sicilian father, Cutugno also won the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Insieme: 1992”.
He won the Sanremo Song Festival twice.
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.

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Tributes flow in for Toto Cutugno

Singer songwriter Toto Cutugno dies at 80