Lucio Quarantotto
Lucio Quarantotto (29 April 1957 – 31 July 2012) was an Italian songwriter best known for writing the lyrics for "Con te partirò", to music composed by Francesco Sartori for Andrea Bocelli.
Lucio Quarantotto
- Born
- 1957 · Venice.
- Died
- 2012 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter · composer · liedermacher
- Languages
- Italian
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Quarantotto also wrote the lyrics for "Canto della Terra" and "Immenso", with music again by Sartori. Both were recorded by Bocelli in his 1999 album Sogno and "Mille Lune Mille Onde", for his 2001 album Cieli di Toscana. "Canto della Terra" was also later recorded as a duet between Bocelli and Brightman in 2007. Sartori and Quarantotto, working for Sugar Music, composed much of Bocelli's pop repertoire. Quarantotto died by suicide on 31 July 2012 by jumping from a window of his sixth-floor apartment.
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Lucio Quarantotto lived from 30 September 1957 to 31 July 2012 and was a singer-songwriter. The birth of Lucio Quarantotto is recorded on 30 September 1957 in Venice, and the death on 31 July 2012 in Venedig-Mestre.
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- 8.È morto Lucio Quarantotto, aveva scritto “Con te partirò”. 31 luglio 2012.
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