Known to be one of the most interesting characters in the music world of the 70s and 80s, here is the story of Toto Cutugno, great singer-songwriter and great producer and author of the most beautiful pieces.
Who is Toto Cutugno
Toto Cutugno, born as Salvatore Cutugno (Fosdinovo, 7 July 1943), is an Italian singer-songwriter.
He grew up in the province of Massa Carrara in a family consisting of three other brothers, his father a naval non-commissioned officer and his mother who was a housewife. He then moved to La Spezia where his family was forced to move due to the work of his father who in these years passed on to him the passion for music.
Experiment as a drummer in different musical groups starting to record his first records and creating the “Albatros”.
With them he participates in the 1976 Sanremo Festival with a song that is positioned in third place obtaining great success. This is followed by participation in Festivalbar where he finds great approval from the public to the point of returning to the Ariston stage the following year.
The beginning of Toto Cutugno’s career
He continues his activity by collaborating with numerous national and non-national artists, making himself known mainly in Spain, South America and France. After a new participation in Sanremo in 1980 where he obtained second place with “Solo noi” participates in the Tokyo Festival and at the Festivalbar. This year is actually very important for his career because he started some thriving collaborations.
In 1983 he participated in the Sanremo Festival with “The Italian” one of his most famous songs became a real success repeating the following year placing himself in second place with “Serenata”. He began the same year to work on Domenica In and then on Piacere Raiuno, always maintaining a fundamental role from a musical point of view.
Toto Cutugno and the great success
In addition to the great successes in Sanremo, he gets an even bigger one in the largest singing competition in Europe: wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 with the song “Together: 1992”. The following year he conducted the broadcast “La vela d’oro” with Raffaella Carrà and Fabrizio Frizzi.
With the advent of the 2000s there is no shortage of new participation in the Festival with a series of highly successful songs that are then collected in the anthological collection “My Sanremo”. After many years he then returns to writing for Adriano Celentano, of whom he remembers in particular “I leave you love” sung with Mina and included in the album “The best”.