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pers of the time wrote about religious reasons lying behind this choice. On 9 August 1975, after 15 years of retirement,
Carosone came back to the stage with a
band of 19 people and a televised show.
On 15 March 1993, Carosone had an
intracranial aneurysm. He was then urgently hospitalized in the neurosurgery
department of San Camillo hospital in
Rome and underwent a delicate operation. However, his strong character
would made him overcome the disease
and dedicate himself to music and to his
other great passion, painting, nurtured
until his death.
ted Mr. Ripley by Anthony Minghella, in
which the actors Rosario Fiorello, Matt
Damon, and Jude Law got wild in a nightclub dancing Tu vuo’ fa l’americano.
Renato Carosone died on Sunday 20
May 2001 in his home in Rome. Four
hundred thousand people attended his
funeral in Piazza del Popolo.
An extraordinary pianist, classical and
jazz performer, Renato Carosone remains one of the greatest interpreters
of modern Neapolitan music. He combined Tarantella with African and American
rhythms and was, along with Domenico
In 1999, the United States paid homa- Modugno, the only Italian artist to sell his
ge to the Italian artist – already suffering music in the United States without recorfrom respiratory and circulatory pro- ding it in English.
blems – through the movie The Talen-
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