Often touted as one the most beautiful voices of the Corsican song, the singer, who was hospitalized in Marseille, died at age 66 following a long illness.
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The Corsican singer Petru Guelfucci, author including interpreter of song Corsica and founder member of the group Canta U Populu Corsu, died Friday 8 October in Marseille, do we learned from his son Petru Santu and its composer.
Often touted as one the most beautiful voices of the Corsican song, the singer, who was hospitalized in Marseille, died at age 66 following a long illness.
“I was his usual composer, I am very sorry, it’s over forty-five years of collaboration and friendship,” said Christophe Mac Daniel, who wrote the music and arrangements of . song Corsica
Two Grammy
His death has provoked many reactions in the Island of Beauty, especially from the group I Muvrini, who praised in Corsican language, “fraternally, memory and pure voice” of the singer.
Born March 6, 1955 at Sermano (Corsica) one of the cradles of the Corsican polyphony, he founded in 1973 Canta U Populu Corsu group Natale Luciani Minicale, CECCE Buteau and Jean-Paul Poletti, before embarking on a solo career in 1987.
It was very popular in Quebec, where he earned a gold record in 1993 for the album Corsica which contained the song of the same name. He also won two Grammys: in 1991, with the group News Corsican polyphony, and in 1995, with the group Voce di Corsica