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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