Goodbye to Walter Brugiolo: he won the Zecchino d’oro with “Popoff”

He died at the age of 63 Walter Brugioloknown for his blond bob and for having won, at the age of 6, the ninth edition of the Zecchino d’Oro in 1967, playing “Popoff” song written by Anna Benassi, with music composed by Paolo Gualdi and Mario Pagano. Sick for some time, he had been hospitalized at the Sant’Orsola Polyclinic in Bologna where he died.

After his singing experience at the Zecchino d’Oro between 1967 and 1970, he became a singer and child actor in advertisements and also on the “musicarello” circuit, acting with famous singers such as Al Bano and Romina Power, Little Tony and Mario Tessuto.

As an adult he became responsible for the information and energy systems of a large construction cooperative in Bologna and then from 2011 director of a private primary school dedicated to Mariele Ventre (died in 1995), founder and director of the Piccolo coro dell’Antoniano in Bologna.

Born in June 1961 in San Venanzio di Galliera, in the Bologna area, Brugiolo, over time, never abandoned the various activities of the Antoniano di Bologna, resuming his singing activity with the ‘Vecchioni di Mariele’, an adult choir made up of former children of the Zecchino d’Oro. He also followed his political career and was the UDC’s candidate for Emilia-Romagna in the elections for the Chamber of Deputies.

The song “Popoff”, also mentioned by Caparezza in his “Pimpami la storia” contained in the 2008 album “The dimensions of my chaos” and “covered” by Enrico Ruggeritells the story of a clumsy Cossack who cannot march in the snow.