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Toto Cutugno

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Toto Cutugno

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Also known as Cutugno, Toto Cotugno

Italian recording artist; musician, songwriter, record producer (1943–2023)

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Toto Cutugno was an Italian person whose work period spanned from 1970 to 2023. He was referenced by 632 other encyclopedia articles. His musical style is categorized under the tags Italian, pop, 80s, and Italian pop.

Cutugno died on 2023-08-22. He had one child. His social media presence included 254,000 followers. On Last.fm, he had 237,356 listeners and a playcount of 2,024,234. Crossref lists five works associated with him.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Salvatore
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Milan
Place of death
Milan
Occupation
lyricist
Languages spoken
Spanish
Native language
Italian
Instrument
voice
Image
Toto cutugno.png
Number of children
1
Voice type
baritone
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date of birth
1943-07-07
birth name
Salvatore Cutugno
Commons category
Toto Cutugno
start of work period
1970-00-00
name in native language
Toto Cutugno
end of work period
2023-00-00
social media followers
254000
member of
Albatros
copyright representative
SIAE
date of death
2023-08-22
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
prostate cancer
supported sports team
AC Milan
writing language
Italian
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Encyclopedic overview

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno ( Italian: [ˈtɔːto kuˈtuɲɲo]; 7 July 1943 – 22 August 2023) was an Italian pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide.

Early life

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

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