Goodbye to Pippo Baudo

Has passed away today, August 16thPippo Baudo. He was 89 years old. The sad news was given by the Ansa agency, through sources close to the family. The confirmation also came from the legal historian and fraternal friend, the lawyer Giorgio Assumma.

Born on June 7, 1936 in Militello in Val di Catania, Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio Baudosaid Pippowas between The best known faces of Italian television. He made his debut in the early sixties and represented for decades a point of reference for Rai, except for a short period on Mediaset. During his career he conducted Numerous editions of variety programs Like “Settevoci”, “Canzonissima”, “Sunday in”, “Fantastic”, “evening of honor”, “twentieth century” and the “Sanremo Festival“, of which holds the leading recordhaving guided the event Thirteen times between 1968 and 2008also holding the role of artistic director in seven Of these editions – or those of 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008. In its programs Pippo Baudo He contributed to launching or relaunching artists such as Milva, Mietta, Anna Oxa and Giuni Russoand made a launching pad for the careers of characters such as Lorella Cuccarini, Heather Parisi, Andrea Bocelli, Giorgia, Laura Pausini, Fabrizio Moro, Beppe Grillo, Barbara D’Urso, Elio and Le Storie Tese, among many others. Parallel to the television activity, he took part in several films and fiction, mainly playing himself, and He is the author of some musical songs Used above all in television or cinematographic contexts.

“With Pippo Baudo a piece of the ‘heart’ of TV goes away, a fundamental part of Rai goes away. Yet, he is his figure will remain impressed in the cultural heritage of Italy”: so the CEO Giampaolo Rossi, the general manager Roberto Sergio and the board of directors give voice to the pain and condolence of the whole company for the disappearance of Pippo Baudo. They continue:

“In this moment of mourning, he accompanies us a great sense of gratitude because with great lightness, intelligence and unparalleled charisma and passion has made a TV a ‘cultural’ phenomenon by ennobled the term ‘nationalpopular’ and translating it into a language immediately understandable by anyone, without ever giving in to the temptation of vulgarity. It was a ‘inventor’ of television, a discoverer of talents, the man of the Sanremo festival. who led more than anyone else, without forgetting his’ Sunday in and many other programs signed by him who remain in everyone’s heritage and who have accompanied the history of our nation itself.

“Nobody did for Italian music what he did,” he remembered, on his official social channels, Enrico Ruggeri: “He had sensed, culture, love. He knew how to keep the word given, he had care for details, he looked for the quality but also people. He loved the music that lasted over time. What displeasure, what empty”.

“Pippo, as you do now write to tell you bye, to say everything you have been and that you will continue to be in memory and heart”, always wrote on his social channels, Giorgia: “The photos will not be enough, the words,
I console me that we have given us things to the last, with all the possible affection, and here to honor at least a little your fundamental contribution to our history to our culture. I leave a big thank you for the passion with which you have always done your art, for what you have given for the one you believed in, and for what you did for me, ‘You invented us, we are all sad today. I hope you can see it. “

“I cannot believe that I am writing this message,” Laura Pausini posted on their Instagram channel: “There are men who in this life and in this land have left an indelible mark on their talent and genius. One of them became 32 years ago the man who changed my life to me, choosing me at just 18 years of age among the new voices of Sanremo 93 and from that moment he never left me. familiar. Many times: I love you so much “.

“You did not grow me at home, but on the stage of life”, they are the words used to remember Baudo from Eros Ramazzotti: “With your reassuring voice, with your careful gaze and your safe hand, you have been guiding, master and confidant. If fate gave me a father of blood, you have been the father of the artistic soul, the one who encourages, who opens, who believes when the others always in my thoughts “.

“Hello dear Great Pippo”, reads in the memory posted by Jovanotti on his official Instagram account: “I wanted you so much well and you wanted me and I felt it and filled me with joy. Knowing you and working with you was ‘fantastic’, you were a giant of the show and a splendid man an affectionate affectionate hungry funny and magical funny and magical. There will never be again.