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Luigi Tenco

1938 - 1967

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Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer-songwriter. He died on the night of 27 January 1967 after a performance at the Sanremo Music Festival. His death was ruled to be the result of suicide, but even decades later, a plethora of evidence in favor of murder was cause to reopen the investigation twice. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Tenco is the 271st most popular musician (down from 236th in 2019), the 1,348th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,273rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Musician.

Luigi Tenco is most famous for his song "La canzone di Marinella" which was a hit in Italy.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Luigi Tenco ranks 271 out of 3,175. Before him are Pete Townshend, Lalo Schifrin, Dinu Lipatti, Jacqueline du Pré, Karl Jenkins, and Randy Jackson. After him are Consuelo Velázquez, Eddie Clarke, Abdel Halim Hafez, Leopold Auer, Louis Vierne, and Farid al-Atrash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Luigi Tenco ranks 86. Before him are Tatsuya Shiji, Leonardo Boff, Keith O'Brien, Charles Simic, Seishiro Shimatani, and Dean Reed. After him are Mamadou Tandja, Ricardo Lagos, David Lane, Michael Rockefeller, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Leiji Matsumoto. Among people deceased in 1967, Luigi Tenco ranks 54. Before him are Totò, Shukri al-Quwatli, Robert van Gulik, Violeta Parra, G. W. Pabst, and Vladimir Bartol. After him are Otis Redding, Anthony Mann, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Hugo Gernsback, Abdel Hakim Amer, and Lorenzo Bandini.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Tenco ranks 1,348 out of 5,161. Before him are Asconius Pedianus (-9), Julia Flavia (64), Giovanni Gronchi (1887), Amintore Fanfani (1908), Piero Manzoni (1933), and Dion of Syracuse (-409). After him are Gianni Morandi (1944), Naevius Sutorius Macro (-21), Eleanor of Anjou (1289), Armando Diaz (1861), Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525), and Tullio Levi-Civita (1873).

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Among MUSICIANS In Italy

Among musicians born in Italy, Luigi Tenco ranks 14. Before him are Romano Mussolini (1927), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920), Giovanni Battista Martini (1706), Lucio Dalla (1943), Paolo Conte (1937), and Mauro Giuliani (1781). After him are Leonardo De Lorenzo (1875), Matteo Carcassi (1792), Domenico Alberti (1710), Franco Battiato (1945), Guido Cantelli (1920), and Rocco Granata (1938).

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