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# 81 JULY 18 , 2016
lian record.
The man who wrote and
performed the most famous Italian song ever,
will also be involved in
theater, cinema, poetry.
He will collaborate with
the Nobel prize poet Salvatore Quasimodo, who
after knowning Modugno
will give him permission to
put music in his two poems "Ora che sale il giorno"
and "Le morte chitarre".
# 81 juLY 18 , 2016
On August 26, 1993 Domenico (also called Mimmo) sings in Polignano a
Mare, his hometown, the
last great concert of his career, attended by 70,000
people: it is the "reconciliation with polignanesi"
after he spent years delaring himself a Sicilian. During the concert he publicly declares: "I apologize,
but with the hunger I had I
could have even said I was
Japanese!".
Domenico
Modugno
dies August 6, 1994 in his
home in Lampedusa, of a
heart attack at the age of
66. A poet of happiness in
music, Mimmo once said:
"The song is a moment of
great happiness. I disagree with inner torments.
They are useless. I want
to sing happiness: even
if it does not exist, I want
to delude myself that it
exists, I have to believe it
does".
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