Death of Toto Cutugno: what did the interpreter of “L’Italiano” die from?

Author of the essential hit “L’Italiano”, the Italian singer Toto Cutugno died on Tuesday August 22, 2023 at the age of 80.

[Mis à jour le 22 août 2023 à 18h35] Toto Cutugno died on Tuesday August 22, 2023, at the age of 80. It was his manager, Danilo Mancuso, who announced the death of the singer, composer and performer to the main news agency Ansa. Toto Cutugno died in San Raffaele Hospital in Milan “after a long illness”. According to his manager, “the singer’s condition had worsened in recent months”. In 2007, the singer had notably undergone surgery and then therapy, after cancer was detected in him.

Toto Cutugno had made himself known to the general public thanks to the tube The Italianoreleased in 1983. With its title First: 1992, a hymn to Europe, the Italian singer won Eurovision in 1990. The Italian star had also made a name for himself by collaborating with many artists: Dalida, Sheila, Gérard Lenormand, Joe Dassin, Johnny Hallyday and Michel Sardo. It is with the latter that Toto Cutugno wrote the song Singing.

Tributes began to arrive to salute the career of the artist, starting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who spoke of“a real Italian”. On X, formerly Twitter, the Eurovision Song Contest also wrote a simple “Rest in Peace Toto Cutugno”accompanied by the lyrics of the song with which he won the competition.