Pino D'Angiò, born Giuseppe Chierchia, has died. He was 71 years old. The family announced the news a short while ago through the artist's social media channels: “There are no words to explain the darkness of this moment. With immense pain, the family announces that Pino left us today. You were the most beautiful gift that life could give to the people who had the privilege of knowing you. Your soul danced on joys and sufferings always in the same way, with the delicate strength of a smiling lion. Everything. Beyond the imaginable. This is what you were, are and will remain.”
This is the farewell of his wife Teresa and son Francesco, as reported by ANSA: “Unfortunately, today, dad left us, struck by a serious illness that took him away in the space of a few weeks. He resisted for a long time, as he always did.” D'Angiò had never made a secret of the illnesses that had struck him over time, including a throat tumor, a lung tumor, and a heart attack with cardiac arrest.
Crumpled, cigarette in mouth, a musician by chance («I never in my life wanted to be a singer», he declared in this interview), his career was always lived lightly. With his But which idea (“four minutes and twenty-three seconds of groove”, again from our interview), Pino D'Angiò had become the symbol of the 80s – and, more recently, in some way also of the latest edition of the Sanremo Festival, thanks to sharing the cover night with BNKR44, who had presented his hit. At the beginning of this June, the duet had been certified Platinum.