Franco Gatti, singer of ‘Ricci e Poveri’ and interpreter of ‘It will be because I love you’ dies

Franco Gatti, on the left of the image.GettyThe singer has died at the age of 80 in Genoa, Italy’Ricchi e Poveri’ won the San Remo Festival in 1985 with “Se m’innamoro”The group has numerous great successes and perhaps “It will be because I love you” is his best-known songFranco Gatti, a member of the Italian group ‘Ricchi e Poveri’, has died in Genoa (Italy) at the age of 80. The singer achieved numerous successes in the 70s and 80s with his group, also in Spanish. His bandmates have been the ones who have announced the death. The group has stepped on stages around the world for half a century and among its most remembered songs are “Che Sara”, “Se m’innamoro”, “Mamma Maria” or ” Sara perche I love you”. Franco Gatti, marked by the tragic death of his son, had left the group in 2016 to dedicate himself to his family. In 2020 he returned to the stage with his companions in a historic meeting at the Ariston Theater, during the Sanremo Festival that year: “A piece of our life is gone. Ciao Franco”, wrote Brambati and Sotgiu about his death. ‘Ricchi e Poveri’ was born in 1968 and Gatti was part of the group from the beginning, when it had four members. The band is still today among the Italian artists with the highest number of albums sold and among the longest-lived groups, along with the Poohs, the Nomadas and Stadio They also attended the Eurovision Song Contest with “Questo amore” in 1978 and participated several times in the San Remo Festival, obtaining second place in 1970 and 1971 and proclaiming themselves winners in 1985 with “Se m’innamoro”.