Lucio Dalla
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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.
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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
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Employer
- University of Urbino
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Participant in
- Sanremo Music Festival 2012
- Eye colour
- green
- Genre
- rock music
- 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.