Dead Toni Santagata, he wrote the official song of Padre Pio

This morning, Sunday 5 December, the singer-songwriter died Toni Santagata.

Antonio Morese at the registry office, the artist, 85 years old, was originally from Sant'Agata di Puglia, and in 1974 he won Canzonissima with the song Lu Maritiello. Among his pieces, Quant'è bello lu primm'ammore, which cost him a Rai censorship in the 60s, and Squadra Grande, the theme song for the historic TV program Golflash.

For public TV, among other things, he hosted the children's program Il dirigibile, while for Radio Rai he hosted and wrote the programs Miramare, Radio taxi, Di riffa o di Raffa, Radio Punk.

Many concerts in Italy and abroad, including, memorable, the two evenings in 1976 at Madison Square Garden in New York. In October 1992 he was hired for a concert in Piazza S. Giovanni in Rome, filmed by Rai 1, which was attended by 500.000 people.

He was one of the founders of the National Actors, of which he was the top scorer for a long time. The last appearance on video last October 22 at "Today is another day".

Toni Santagata's relationship with Padre Pio

Over the course of his career he has written 6 modern musical works. The best known is Padre Pio Santo of hope, performed in the Vatican in the Paul VI Hall on the evening of canonization of the Saint.

The final song, Padre Pio I need you, has become the official prayer of the saint's faithful.