Toto Cutugno

Toto Cutugno (* 7. July 1943 in Fosdinovo as Salvatore Cutugno ) is an Italian singer , songwriter and television presenter . In the course of his career he took part in the Sanremo Festival 15 times and won it once. He celebrated his greatest successes in the 1980s. In 1990 he won with Insieme: 1992 for Italy the Eurovision Song Contest . He is also active as a songwriter for a number of successful Italian and international performers.

Career

Cutugno was born in Tuscany to a father of Sicilian descent; he grew up in La Spezia and played drums in various Italian beat groups ( Nostradamus , Cocci di Vaso or Accanimenti Terapeutici ) at a young age until he became a permanent member of the band Ghigo ei Goghi ; However, this dissolved again in 1969. He then founded the short-lived band Toto ei Tati , with which he first took part in the Un disco per l'estate competition in 1970 , albeit without success. A little later he founded a new group, Albatros , in which he was also active as a singer.

With the song Africa written by Cutugno , Albatros had a minor hit in 1975, which was particularly successful in the French version of Joe Dassin (as L'été indien ). As a result, various French artists such as Gérard Lenorman ( Voici les clés ), Dalida ( Monday Tuesday… Laissez-moi danser ), Johnny Hallyday ( Derrière l'amour ) or Hervé Vilard ( Reviens ) landed hit parades with French versions of originally Italian cutugno compositions . Cutugno wrote the hit En chantant for Michel Sardou . He provided other original compositions in France for Mireille Mathieu and Claude François .

With Volo AZ504 Albatros was able to land third place at the Sanremo Festival in 1976 . Already next year the group returned to the festival had with Gran Premio but only moderate success. In 1978 Albatros disbanded and Cutugno began his solo career. The 1978 single Donna donna mia was captured by using it as the theme song for the quiz show Scommettiamo? known from Mike Bongiorno , Cutugno followed up his debut album Voglio l'anima in 1979. In the same year Adriano Celentano achieved a number one hit with the song Soli co-written by Cutugno . Cutugno's breakthrough came with the song Solo noi , which won the Sanremo Festival in 1980 . In the same year he also took part in the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo with Francesca non lo sa , wrote the festival bar winner's song Olympic Games for Miguel Bosé and continued his collaborations with Adriano Celentano and Mike Bongiorno.

Cutugno's second album La mia musica was released in 1981. During the 1980s, the singer took part in the Sanremo Festival six times himself ( 1983 with L'italiano , 1984 with Serenata , 1986 with Azzurra malinconia , 1987 with Figli , 1988 with Emozioni and 1989 with Le mamme ), but without winning again, and made contributions for other participants, such as Luis Miguel , Fausto Leali , Peppino di Capri , Ricchi e Poveri and Franco Califano . In 1987, four songs by Cutugno were in competition, including Figli , which he sang himself ; in the same year he appeared in the entertainment program Domenica for the first time as a television presenter.

When he took part in the Sanremo Festival for the tenth time in 1990 , Cutugno and Gli amori came in second for the fifth time, behind the group Pooh . After they refused to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 , Cutugno moved up as an Italian candidate. With the self-written song Insieme: In 1992 he achieved the second Italian ESC victory in Zagreb after Gigliola Cinquetti's Non ho l'età (1964). The 1991 Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Rome, was then moderated by Cutugno and Cinquetti.

From the 1990s on, things got quieter around Cutugno. He continued to work as a television presenter, returned to Sanremo in 1995 and 1997 (without achieving notable success) and released a few new albums. In 2005 the singer achieved another second place in Sanremo in a duet with Annalisa Minetti . Between 2006 and 2007 he toured the Eastern European countries, in 2008 and 2010 further Sanremo participations followed.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH
1983	L'italiano	-	DE36 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	Carosello
2008	Un falco chiuso in gabbia	IT70 (3 weeks) IT	-	-	-	Noble

• 1980 - Voglio l'anima (Carosello)
• 1981 - Innamorata, innamorato, innamorati (Carosello)
• 1982 - La mia musica (Carosello)
• 1985 - Per amore o per gioco (Baby Records)
• 1986 - Azzurra malinconia (EMI)
• 1987 - Mediterraneo (EMI)
• 1990 - Toto Cutugno
• 1991 - Non è facile essere uomini
• 1992 - Insieme
• 1994 - Se mi ami (Mediterraneo)
• 1995 - Voglio andare a vivere in campagna
• 1997 - Canzoni nascoste
• 2000 - Star profile
• 2002 - Il treno va ...
• 2005 - Come noi nessuno al mondo
• 2006 - Cantando

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH
1990	Insieme: 1992	-	DE52 (6 weeks) DE	AT14 (7 weeks) AT	CH9 gold (9 weeks)CH	EMI sales: + 25,000
2010	15 - I miei Sanremo	IT65 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	Noble

• 1989 - Solo noi
• 1990 - The Very Best Of
• 1996 - Best
• 2002 - L'italiano - The Very Best of Toto Cutugno
• 2005 - Greatest Hits
• 2005 - Il mondo di Toto Cutugno
• 2010 - Ritratto

Singles (selection)

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH
1979	Donna donna mia	IT19 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	-	Carosello
1980	Solo noi	IT2 (19 weeks) IT	-	-	CH2 (10 weeks) CH	Carosello winning contribution to the Sanremo Festival 1980
	Innamorati	IT14 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	CH6 (9 weeks) CH	Carosello
1981	Flash	IT18 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	CH6 (10 weeks) CH	Carosello
	La mia musica	IT24 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	Carosello
1983	L'italiano	IT2 (17 weeks) IT	DE23 (15 weeks) DE	-	CH1 (11 weeks) CH	Carosello
	Un'estate con te	-	-	AT10 (12 weeks) AT	-	Carosello
1984	Serenata	IT5 (13 weeks) IT	DE31 (11 weeks) DE	-	CH12 (7 weeks) CH	infant
1985	Mi piacerebbe andare al mare	IT16 (5 weeks) IT	-	-	-	EMI
1986	Azzurra malinconia	IT19 (4 weeks) IT	-	-	-	EMI
1987	Figli	IT5 (10 weeks) IT	-	-	CH20 (5 weeks) CH	EMI
	Una domenica italiana	IT11 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	-	EMI
1988	Emozioni	IT7 (7 weeks) IT	-	-	-	EMI
1989	Le mamme	IT25 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	EMI
1990	Gli amori	IT9 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	-	EMI
	Insieme: 1992	IT14 (15 weeks) IT	DE13 (20 weeks) DE	AT3 (17 weeks) AT	CH2 (17 weeks) CH	EMI winning contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 1990

Awards for music sales

Silver record  France 1990: for the single Insieme: 1992

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
France (SNEP)	silver1	-	-	125,000	infodisc.fr
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	silver1	gold1	-

Web links

• Official website. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 14, 2018 (Italian). 
• Toto Cutugno at Rockol.it
• Toto Cutugno at Allmusic (English)
• Toto Cutugno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Toto Cutugno at Discogs (English)

supporting documents

1. ^ Toto Cutugno: Un italiano fiero. In: Biographyonline.it. Retrieved May 10, 2016 (Italian). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources (albums):
   • Albums by Toto Cutugno. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed May 10, 2016 (IT). 
   • Albums by Toto Cutugno. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment, accessed on May 10, 2016 (DE). 
   • Albums by Toto Cutugno. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed on May 10, 2016 (AT). 
   • Albums by Toto Cutugno. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on May 10, 2016 (CH). 
3. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
   • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on May 10, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT). 
   • Singles by Toto Cutugno. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 10, 2016 (DE). 
   • Singles by Toto Cutugno. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed on May 10, 2016 (AT). 
   • Singles by Toto Cutugno. In: Hitparade.ch . Hung Medien, accessed on May 10, 2016 (CH).