If a moment ago we reported on the death of the singer of the Monkeys, now we have to reveal another great loss for the world of music: none other than that of the Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, who died today of a heart attack at the age of 69 in Montreaux (Switzerland).
Dalla was in good condition last night and performed at the Stravinsky Auditorium in Montreaux, according to Pascal Pellegrino, the person in charge of the musical programming of the Swiss town. «He offered a normal concert, before some 800 or 900 people who continuously chanted his name, a very warm audience that created a really beautiful atmosphere«.
According to Pellegrino, Dalla «he spent the night joking, speaking in French, in a perfectly normal concert that lasted just over two hours, with a 20-minute intermission«. However, this morning after breakfast he began to feel bad, said his agent of a lifetime, Michele Mondella, who remarked still bewildered that "dying was not Dalla's style."
In his 40-year career, Dalla moved with his songs such as "Gesu Bambino", with which he participated in 1971 at the Sanremo Song Festival and which was his first great success; internationally his great success came in the 80s from the hand of "Caruso", considered one of the masterpieces of Italian music by critics.
Recently, Dalla starred together with his friend, the singer-songwriter Francesco de Gregori, on an Italian tour that had been enormously successful. RIP.
Via | EFE