Singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla dies

Lucio Dalla, an Italian singer-songwriter who offered countless records worldwide and composed tunes for many of Italy's most well-known film company directors, died Thursday of the apparent cardiac arrest in Montreux, Europe, throughout a European concert tour. He was 68.Dalla, whose musical genres ranged from folk to jazz to classical, gave a concert Wednesday within the Swiss city noted for its music and "is at fine form," stated Pascal Pellegrino, the director of Montreux's "culture season." Pellegrino stated the performance was cordially congratulated, and Dalla remained onto talk to fans.Dalla's haunting tune "Caruso" offered 9 million copies worldwide and was sang through the late opera great Luciano Pavarotti with Dalla in a 1992 concert in Modena.Dalla together with abroad frequently, including within the U.S., sometimes with another famous Italian folksong author, Francesco P Gregori.Marketed by another Italian singer and songwriter, Gino Paoli, Dalla began carrying out within the sixties. In 1977, Dalla's first album with tunes compiled by themself -- "How Deep May be the Ocean" -- arrived on the scene. He created new albums virtually every year within the next couple of years, such as the popular "Blueberry Republic."One other popular song was his 1990 "Watch out for the Wolf" around the album "Cambio," which offered nearly 1.4 million copies, based on Dalla's website.His version of Prokofiev's "Peter and also the Wolf" was carried out in Rome's Santa Cecilia auditorium in 1997. Younger crowd authored an opera "Tosca. Amore disperato," inspired by Puccini's "Tosca."Dalla composed tunes for many of Italian film company directors including Mario Monicelli, Michelangelo Antonioni, Carlo Verdone and Michele Placido.A lot of Dalla's work was inspired by the love for that ocean. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com