Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 â€" 27 January 1967) was an Italian
singer-songwriter. After his alleged suicide, he became an icon of
love and despair. The true causes of his death have not yet been
agreed upon.Tenco was born in Cassine (province of Alessandria) in
1938, the son of Teresa Zoccola and Giuseppe Tenco. He never knew his
father, who died in unclear circumstances. It has been rumored that
Luigi Tenco was the fruit of the extramarital relationship of his
mother and the sixteen-year-old son of the wealthy family for whom she
worked at the time.Tenco spent his childhood in Cassine and Ricaldone
until 1948, when he moved to Liguria, first to Nervi and then to
Genoa, where his mother had a wine shop called Enos in the quarter of
La Foce. During high school, Tenco founded the Jelly Roll Morton Boys
Jazz band, in which Tenco played the clarinet and another singer,
later to become famous, Bruno Lauzi, the banjo. Gino Paoli, who would
become one of Italy's most famous singers and songwriters as well,
also played with Tenco in the band he was later involved in, I Diavoli
del Rock (The Rock Devils).
singer-songwriter. After his alleged suicide, he became an icon of
love and despair. The true causes of his death have not yet been
agreed upon.Tenco was born in Cassine (province of Alessandria) in
1938, the son of Teresa Zoccola and Giuseppe Tenco. He never knew his
father, who died in unclear circumstances. It has been rumored that
Luigi Tenco was the fruit of the extramarital relationship of his
mother and the sixteen-year-old son of the wealthy family for whom she
worked at the time.Tenco spent his childhood in Cassine and Ricaldone
until 1948, when he moved to Liguria, first to Nervi and then to
Genoa, where his mother had a wine shop called Enos in the quarter of
La Foce. During high school, Tenco founded the Jelly Roll Morton Boys
Jazz band, in which Tenco played the clarinet and another singer,
later to become famous, Bruno Lauzi, the banjo. Gino Paoli, who would
become one of Italy's most famous singers and songwriters as well,
also played with Tenco in the band he was later involved in, I Diavoli
del Rock (The Rock Devils).
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