Franco Gatti, one of the founders of the Ricchi e Poveri, has died at the age of 80. A little shy, shy and ironic, he went to his genoa. The beloved “mustache” of the famous Italian quartet, born in 1967 and turned into a trio over the years, has had a long and happy career. There was no shortage of ups and downs, but the death of his son Alessio radically changed his life. A strong, deep pain that exhausted him.
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The turning point happened on February 3, 2013. The singer endured the greatest pain, the death of his son Alessio, 22, who was found dead at his home on Via Capolungo in Nervi, east of Genoa. An evening of celebration, important because for the festival the rich and the poor should have gone to the stage of the Ariston of Sanremo. “I have just been informed that Franco Gatti’s son is missing. And that’s why they won’t be there tonight, of course, »Fabio Fazio had moved into the press room.
When Fazio was moving, he announced the death of Franco Gatti’s 22-year-old son at the Sanremo Festival
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“I taught my son to be afraid of drugs from an early age. I want to hope that Alessio died from natural causes and not from drugs. I’m waiting for the result of the autopsy, but if the drug has nothing to do with it, I will sue those who attributed the death to cocaine use, ”said the father.
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Alessio was born from the union of Franco and his wife Stefania Picasso. “My son drank a lot and it was a bit unlucky for him too,” said his father. It was a mixture of drugs and alcohol that killed him according to the controls of the Genoa prosecutor’s office. “He screwed up, the first and last of his life, he used drugs when he wasn’t feeling well. And that’s how he paid for it.” However, Gatti denied to the last that his son was a drug addict. In a program a few years ago, he tearfully remembered Alessio and said: “We will meet again.”
Farewell to Franco Gatti when “Mamma Maria” danced with the “Ricchi e Poveri”.
