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His father was an officer of Italy's navy, his mother a housewife.

Started his musical career as a drummer.

Supports AC Milan.

Italian singer.

His most successful songs include "Solo noi" (1980, lit. for "Only Us"), "L'Italiano" (1983, "The Italian"), "Serenata" (1984, "Serenade"), "Insieme: 1992" (1990, "Together: 1992") and "Gli amori" together with Ray Charles (1990, "Good Love Gone Bad" in the English version).

Wrote songs for Joe Dassin and Dalida.

Winner of Eurovision Song Contest Zagreb 1990 (1990) with his song "Insieme: 1992".

Participating 13 times at Festival di Sanremo (1951), he has won in 1980 with "Solo noi" (lit. for "Only us") and finished second in sixth editions.

One son, Nico (b. 1989 ca).

Cutugno began his musical career as a drummer, and at 19 he founded his first band, Toto e i Tati.

He also started a career as a songwriter, contributing some of French-American singer Joe Dassin most well-known songs such as "L'été indien" ( = Indian summer, sung by Lee Halewood & Nancy Sinatra), "Et si tu n'existais pas", and "Le Jardin du Luxembourg" (written with Vito Pallavicini).

He 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, labelling him as "a Russian war supporter in Ukraine". Two days before, fellow Italian singer Albano Carrisi had been blacklisted on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets. Cutugno rejected the accusations, describing himself as apolitical and highlighting how he had refused to perform in Crimea following its 2014 Russian occupation. Despite the controversy, the concert was eventually held in Kyiv on 23 March.

When he was 5, Cutugno witnessed the death of his seven-year-old sister Anna, who choked on a gnocco. His other siblings included Roberto and Rosanna (the first child to receive heart surgery in Italy, in Turin).

He also co-wrote Dalida's "Monday Tuesday... Laissez moi danser" ("Voglio l'anima" in its Italian version), which achieved Platinum record status shortly after being released, as well as songs for Johnny Hallyday, Mireille Mathieu, Ornella Vanoni, Domenico Modugno, Claude François, Gigliola Cinquetti, Gérard Lenorman, Michel Sardou, Hervé Vilard, and Paul Mauriat.