Rino Gaetano, his sister Anna: “Gianna? Dedicated to me”

“What do I lack my brother Rino Gaetano? Everything.” To say it is Anna Gaetano, 80 years old, the only sister of the singer -songwriter who died on June 2, 1981 in an accident on the Nomentana. Anna recalled her brother in an interview with Corriere della Sera, on which several agencies made launches. An interview where he told the difficult childhood and the accident in which the ” hand ‘singer -songwriter lost his life at 30 years and 8 months. One of his greatest successes is ‘Gianna’, dedicated to his sister Anna: “In fact, Anna had to be called, but it sounded badly.

I said to him: ‘You wrote a song for Aunt Maria, one for Aunt Rosina – Dad’s sister, who is 99 years old and lives in Australia -, now it’s up to me’, “he told in the interview. Rino Gaetano was very friend of Antonello Venditti and Francesco De Gregori: “Three brothers were very tied. When they left together, Francesco and Rino paid for the petrol, Antonello put the car to us.” Anna recalls that she also had a special relationship with Riccardo Cocciante and Renato Zero: “They always went together with the Olympic stadium to see Rome’s games, also with Little Tony”.