Toto Cutugno Cause Of Death: What Happened To Toto Cutugno?

Salvatore “Toto” Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, “L’Italiano”, released on his 1983 album of the same title.

Cutugno began his musical career as a drummer, and at 19 he founded his first band, Toto e i Tati. He later formed the disco band Albatros together with Lino Losito and Mario Limongelli.

In March 2019, a group of politicians from the Ukrainian Parliament tried to stop Cutugno from performing in Kyiv, demanding through an open letter to the head of the country’s security services, Vasyl Hrytsak, to ban the singer from entering Ukrainian territory, labeling him as “a Russian war supporter in Ukraine”.

Toto Cutugno Cause Of Death: What Happened To Toto Cutugno?

At the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, where Toto had been admitted following a protracted illness, Toto Cutugno passed away on August 22, 2023, at the age of 80.

Author, composer, and singer Toto Cutugno passed away on Tuesday at the age of 80 after a protracted illness, according to his manager Danilo Mancuso’s statement to the transalpine press agency Ansa.