Claude Barzotti died of generalized pancreatic cancer this Saturday, June 24, 2023, revealed his manager to theAFP. The Italian-Belgian singer “died at 69 in his bed, surrounded by his two daughters”in his villa in Court-Saint-Etienne, a town located between Brussels and Charleroi (Belgium), said Laurent Comtat.
Real name Francesco Barzotti burst into the public eye in 1981, with Madam, his first hit which sold more than 1.7 million copies. But that’s the piece, The Rital, released two years later, which made him gain notoriety on the French side! The title will rank number 1 on the charts for more than a month at the beginning of 1984. Moreover, in 1985, Celine Dion will open for one of her many stays in Canada. For more than 40 years, the artist will have written for several of his colleagues and colleagues, in particular Pension Bianca for Dalida. Problems of alcohol, violence, as well as a trial for rape in 1998, of which he will be acquitted, will taint his career.
In the 2000s, he had participated in the nostalgic tour “Tender age and head of wood”, with Sheila, Patrick Juvet, Frank Alamo or Stone and Charden.
In 2020, tired of no longer being able to give concerts because of the health crisis, the interpreter of I won’t write to you anymore decided to end his career in 2020. “I’ve been thinking about it since March already, since the appearance of this virus”, he confided to the Last Hour in November 2020. “I had to cancel about eighty shows.” His health concerns also push him to hang up. “I can’t even stand up anymore… I am seriously ill. I currently suffer from terrible pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas, editor’s note) which forces me to go to the hospital every day”he said to our colleagues from France Sunday.
On July 23, 2023, Claude Barzotti would have been 70 years old.
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