He was “one of the key figures in the Italian music scene,” in the eyes of Il Messaggero. “One of the greatest representatives of variety singing in our country,” affirms the Corriere della Sera. “The one who ‘revolutionized our music’,” decides La Repubblica. And it is for this reason, mourns La Stampa, that “today it is not just a singer who is leaving us, it is an essential link of the Italian music soul that is disappearing.”
On Tuesday, March 24, while the entire peninsula was still absorbed in analyzing the results of the referendum on justice, the news of a loss made headlines.
During the night, Gino Paoli, a very famous variety singer born in Monfalcone but Genoese by adoption, passed away. He was 91 years old. “Tonight, Gino left us, serene, and surrounded by the love of his family,” his relatives stated in a brief and modest message. A discretion and reserve not adopted by the Italian newspapers, which did not hesitate to flood the web with tributes, each more grandiose than the other.
Thus, from its Turin newsroom, La Stampa celebrates “Paoli’s warm and husky voice, which has managed to transform Italian text singing into a territory of poetry accessible to all. Gino will have crossed decades of”…
