Lucio Quarantotto (29 April 1957 – 31 July 2012) was an Italian songwriter best known for writing the lyrics for "
Con te partirò
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", to music composed by
Francesco Sartori for
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing " Il mare calmo della sera".
Since 1994, Bocelli has recorded 15 solo st ...
. The song was also recorded as a duet entitled "Time to Say Goodbye" by Bocelli and
Sarah Brightman.
Biography
Quarantotto also wrote the lyrics for "
Canto della Terra" and "Immenso", with music again by Sartori. Both were recorded by Bocelli in his 1999 album ''
Sogno'' and "
Mille Lune Mille Onde", for his 2001 album ''
Cieli di Toscana''. "Canto della Terra" was also later recorded as a duet between Bocelli and Brightman in 2007.
Sartori and Quarantotto, working for
Sugar Music, composed much of Bocelli's pop repertoire.
Quarantotto committed suicide on 31 July 2012 by jumping from a window of his sixth-floor apartment.
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1957 births
2012 suicides
2012 deaths
Italian composers
Italian male composers
Suicides by jumping in Italy
20th-century Italian musicians
20th-century Italian male musicians
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