L'Italiano ( Lasciatemi cantare ), Toto Cutugno, Cristiano Minellono, 1983,

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This arrangement inspired by....Toto Cutugno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syc78JzHGTs&list=RDsyc78JzHGTs&start_radio=1
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Here are some different versions that were hits around the world.....

Brazilian singer José Augusto recorded the song in Portuguese as "Faz de Conta".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk1IGnM4qls

Vietnamese singer Đàm Vĩnh Hưng recorded his version in Vietnamese as "Say Tình" in 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNlTp8d5CI

Austrian-Italian singer Patrizio Buanne recorded his version in album "The Italian" in 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Yh3AHCqMU

In 1983, Finnish singer Kari Tapio recorded a cover titled "Olen suomalainen" ("I am a Finn"), which became a hit in Finland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTAVjr0zZ4

Also in 1983, a Dutch version titled "Als ik maar bij jou ben" ("As long as I'm with you") was a moderate hit for palingsound group Canyon from Volendam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgcYXRmiVo

In 1984, Doron Mazar, an Israeli singer and Gassan Abbas,an Israeli-Arabian actor recorded a cover to this song, titled "Ani Hozer HaBayta" ("I am returning home")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMWkTdEImM

In 1998, the Hungarian band "Happy Gang" made a cover titled "Sokáig voltam távol" ("I've been away for long") on their album "Te+én" ("You+me")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4MW_M0LwXo

The Gypsy Queens' version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2H5D58kAd0

French singer Hervé Vilard recorded the song in French as "Méditerranéenne".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQMWKj_i5A8
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"L'Italiano" ("The Italian") is an Italian pop song by Toto Cutugno and Cristiano Minellono released in 1983. It was his biggest international hit. The song was forgotten during the 1990s and was re-discovered when Toto Cutugno performed it live at a charity concert in Rome commemorating Italy's victory at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, creating a new wave of popularity for this song.
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Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Lunigiana, (Tuscany), to a Sicilian father from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and a homemaker mother. Shortly after his birth the family moved to La Spezia (Liguria).

He began his musical career as a drummer, and later formed an Italo disco band together with Lino Losito and Mario Limongelli called Albatros. He also started a career as songwriter, contributing some of French-American singer Joe Dassin most well-known songs such as L'été indien, Et si tu n'existais pas and Le Jardin du Luxembourg (written with Vito Pallavicini). He also co-wrote Dalida's Monday Tuesday... Laissez moi danser ("Voglio l'anima"), which enjoyed Platinum record status shortly after its release.
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Born in Arona, Piedmont, Minellono debuted as a lyricist in 1967, with the song "È ancora giorno", performed by Shirley Bassey. In 1968 he got his first successes, Patrick Samson's "Soli si muore" and Dik Dik's "Il primo giorno di Primavera". After further hits for Umberto Balsamo, Nomadi and Wess & Dori Ghezzi, in 1980 he started a fruitful collaboration as producer and lyricist with Toto Cutugno and Adriano Celentano, notably writing the lyrics for Cutugno's major hit "L'Italiano".

In the first half of the 1980s, Minellono was the usual lyricist for Al Bano and Romina Power's and Ricchi e Poveri's songs, contributing to relaunching their careers. Two of his songs won the Sanremo Music Festival, in 1984 Al Bano and Romina's "Ci sarà" and in 1985 Ricchi e Poveri's "Se m'innamoro".

Also active as a creative director, since early 1980s Minellono collaborated as a television writer to numerous Fininvest and later Mediaset television programmes. Wikipedia
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