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Italian singer-songwriter (1943-2012)

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Lucio Dalla was an Italian male singer-songwriter whose career began in 1966. He was associated with genres including beat, blues, jazz, and pop. His musical output included works such as *E ricomincia il canto*, *E forse fu per gioco, o forse per amore*, *Lucio Dalla*, *Canzoni*, and *Attenti al lupo*.

Dalla was active in the music industry until his death on March 1, 2012. He was born on March 4, 1943. His official website was luciodalla.it. On Last.fm, he accumulated 220,017 listeners and 3,715,171 plays, with tags including italian, singer-songwriter, and cantautori.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Born
( 1943-03-04 ) 4 March 1943, Bologna , Kingdom of Italy
Died
1 March 2012 (2012-03-01) (aged 68), Montreux , Switzerland
Resting place
Certosa di Bologna , Italy
Occupations
Singer-songwriter musician
Years active
1966–2012
Style
Jazz blues opera pop
Website
luciodalla .it

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lucio
Gender
male
Citizenship
Kingdom of Italy
Place of birth
Bologna
Place of death
Montreux
Languages spoken
Italian
Eye colour
green
Instrument
piano
Record label
RCA Records
Official website
www.luciodalla.it
Image
Lucio Dalla 03.jpg
Work location
Urbino
Voice type
tenor
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supported sports team
Bologna F.C. 1909
Commons category
Lucio Dalla
cause of death
myocardial infarction
date of birth
1943-03-04
place of burial
Certosa di Bologna
date of death
2012-03-01
manner of death
natural causes
birth name
Lucio Dalla
name in native language
Lucio Dalla
start of work period
1966-00-00
writing language
Italian
copyright representative
SIAE
partner in business or sport
Francesco De Gregori
social media followers
393000
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Encyclopedic overview

Lucio Dalla OMRI ( Italian: [ˈluːtʃo ˈdalla]; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.

Dalla was the composer of "Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and "L'anno che verrà" (1979).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lucio Dalla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.