2023-06-26 00:45:24
The singer-songwriter with a slightly hoarse voice died at the age of 69 in his bed, surrounded by his two daughters, in Court-Saint-Étienne, between Brussels and Charleroi, in Belgium, his manager and chef told AFP. conductor, Laurent Comtat
“Barzotti preferred to be called a singer of emotion rather than a romantic. He was a lively flayed man, a real sensitive, who drank to fight once morest his stage fright. »
— A quote from Laurent Comtat, manager of Claude Barzotti
Claude Barzotti performing in Nice in 2008. (File photo)
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Sick, Barzotti had stopped his career in 2020 and died of pancreatic cancer.
I am rital and I remain so / And in word and in gesture / Your seasons have become mine / But my music is Italian, sang Barzotti in his greatest hit, The Rital in 1983.
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Born Francesco Barzotti on July 23, 1953, into a family of Italian immigrants from the Marche region, the singer with curly intense brown hair evoked his origins and his status as a foreigner in this song, which the news generations may have heard in the film Camping.
His father was a minor. Claude will train in his youth in music theory, classical guitar and singing. He will begin his career in the 1970s, but success will not come until the 1980s.
Among his hits, we find ballads and hit songs that rocked the booms of the 1980s, such as I won’t write to you once more (1984) or Love me (1990).
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In the years 2008-2009, he participated in nostalgic tours Tender age and wooden headwith Marie Myriam, Frank Alamo, Demis Roussos and Patrick Juvet.
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Barzotti had spoken several times publicly regarding his alcohol problems, confiding on Belgian TV to having drunk at times up to five or six bottles of whiskey a day.
I am a sad person. I can’t explain it, because I have everything, but I have nothing, in fact, he let go on the screen.
“Claude Barzotti was the “French lover italiano de service”, an endearing and sincere guy, who suffered a lot because of women. »
— A quote from Hervé Vilard, singer
Claude Barzotti, seen here in Beirut in 2015, called himself a “singer of emotion”. (File photo)
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It was the idol of the Middle East! You were going to a nightclub, if you were French, to make you happy, we sent you Barzotti’s records. You went to New York, you heard Barzotti in Little Italy, underlined Hervé Vilard.
His songs, it was not marshmallow. He needed the words, he was a Latin. And that was another time, he continued.
“The rital that I am remains forever grateful to you for having sung so well our soul, our passions and our storms. »
— A quote from Salvatore Adamo, another famous Italian-Belgian voice
We have just lost a friend, an extraordinary artist who made us dream with songs that will remain etched in our memories, wrote singer Frédéric François on social networks.
Barzotti? A delicious, funny, humorous man, he loved life and that is perhaps what won him, told AFP producer Olivier Kaefer, organizer of shows in the 1980s. We will very much regret it.
Moment of nostalgia with Claude Barzotti
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