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Luigi Tenco
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Italian recording artist; singer, songwriter (1938-1967)
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Luigi Tenco was an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, film actor, and jazz musician. Born in Cassine, Italy, in 1938, he began his work period in 1959 and continued until 1967. He performed in the genres of light music, ballad, and pop, and was influenced by Charles Aznavour. Tenco played the voice, saxophone, guitar, and piano, and was a member of the Italian Socialist Party.
He recorded for RCA Italiana and was represented by SIAE. His pseudonyms included Tenco, Gordon Cliff, Gigi Mai, and Dick Ventuno. Tenco was unmarried to Dalida and spoke Italian. He died in Sanremo in 1967 from a gunshot wound sustained in a suicide.
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Film & TV
Cassine, Italy
Known for
- Marx Can Wait — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2021
- Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada — Self2008
- Incontro con Luigi Tenco1966
- 008 Operazione ritmo1965
- Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone — Self1964
- La cuccagna — Giuliano1962
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1938
- Active to
- 1967
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 111,373
- Total plays
- 1,066,801
Tags
Luigi Tenco (March 21, 1938 – January 27, 1967) was a popular Italian singer, songwriter and actor. He committed suicide the night he and Dalida, the famous Italian-Egyptian singer, who was also his partner, were eliminated from the prestigious (at the time) San Remo Festival, when the song "Ciao amore ciao" didn't make it to the final. In his note he said that he was doing this not because he was sick of life, but as a sign of protest against a myopic jury. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Luigi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Cassine
- Place of death
- Sanremo
- Occupation
- actor
- Political party
- Italian Socialist Party
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Movement
- Genoa school
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Tenco Sanremo 1967.jpg
- Number of children
- 0
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- Commons category
- Luigi Tenco
- date of birth
- 1938-03-21
- date of death
- 1967-01-27
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- name in native language
- Luigi Tenco
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- unmarried partner
- Dalida
- influenced by
- Charles Aznavour
- pseudonym
- Charles Aznavour jr.
- copyright representative
- SIAE
- end of work period
- 1967-00-00
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