Farewell to Toto Cutugno . The singer , born on 7 July 1943, died today at 4 pm at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan . It was the artist's manager, Danilo Mancuso, who broke the news, explaining that Cutugno had been ill for some time and had "aggravated in recent months".

For him , the number of participations in the Sanremo festival was a record , 15, a record he shared with Al Bano, Peppino di Capri, Milva and Anna Oxa .

Success in 1983 when, with his guitar, on the stage of the Sanremo festival in a salmon jacket and tie he sings " Let me sing with guitar in hand... ": the song has the title " L'italiano " and does not even touch the podium, but its popularity explodes all over the world.

CAREER – Born in Fosdinovo, in the province of Massa Carrara, the son of a naval non-commissioned officer, little Salvatore grew up in La Spezia for his father's work reasons, who was also the one who introduced him to music. The father plays the trumpet in a band and also involves Totò, first on the drum, then on the drums and finally on the accordion .

The first competition is at thirteen, then in his early twenties he enters various groups. His debut as a singer is with the Albatros, with which he takes part in the Festival for the first time.

And then the long solo career . Among the successes the victory in Sanremo in 1980 with "Solo noi" and at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with "Together: 1992". Instead, he came second no less than six times, once third and twice fourth, always on the Ariston stage.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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