Domenico Cutugno: Who Was Toto Cutugno’s Father?

Salvatore “Toto” Cutugno was a singer-songwriter and musician from Italy. He was best known for his worldwide smash song “L’Italiano,” which was published in 1983 on his album of the same name.

Cutugno started out as a drummer and, at the age of 19, formed his first band, Toto e i Tati. Later, he with Lino Losito and Mario Limongelli established the disco band, Albatros.

In March 2019, a group of Ukrainian lawmakers attempted to prevent Cutugno from performing in Kyiv by writing an open letter to the head of the country’s security services, Vasyl Hrytsak, requesting that the singer be barred from entering Ukrainian territory because he was “a Russian war supporter in Ukraine.”

Domenico Cutugno: Who Was Toto Cutugno’s Father?

Toto Cutugno was born on 7 July 1943 in Tendola, a borough of Fosdinovo, Lunigiana, Tuscany, to a Sicilian sea marshal father from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and a housewife mother.

Shortly after his birth, the family moved to La Spezia, Liguria.