Riccardo Cocciante guest tonight on TV, Wednesday, November 20, in the event evening for UNICEF ‘Noi e..:’ broadcast on Rai 1 at 9:30 PM. The show is broadcast live from the ‘Fabrizio Frizzi’ studios in Rome. Numerous guests from the world of music and entertainment will participate in tonight’s UNICEF charity initiative in partnership with Rai.

Riccardo Cocciante was born on February 20, 1946 (78 years old) under the sign of Pisces in Saigon (French Indochina), Vietnam, and is 1 meter and 58 centimeters tall. His father is Italian from Rocca di Mezzo (in the province of L’Aquila) and his mother is French. He has two sisters, Giovanna and Anita. At the age of eleven, he moved with his family to Rome. It is in Italy that he developed artistically, although he always maintained, thanks to his mother, a sort of ‘dual identity’ Italian-French. In English-speaking countries, he is known as Richard Cocciante. Besides Italy, he has lived for a long time in the United States of America and in France; more recently in Ireland.

Riccardo Cocciante took his first steps in the music scene in the late sixties, early seventies. In 1972, his first album ‘Mu’ was released. In 1974, another album ‘Anima’ was released, which contains the song that would start his success, ‘Bella senz’anima’, arranged by Ennio Morricone. 1976 was a very important year, with the release of the album ‘Concerto per Margherita’ with the song ‘Margherita’ which allowed him to enter the Olympus of the greatest Italian songwriters. This song took him not only to Italy but also to Spain, France, and South America. In 1978, he released a new album that also featured ‘A mano a mano’,

which became famous in the version by Rino Gaetano. In the 80s, he began collaborating with Mogol, and both achieved considerable success with the albums ‘Cervo a primavera’ and ‘Cocciante’, which include some of his most famous songs, such as ‘Celeste nostalgia’. In the 90s, in addition to releasing albums like ‘Eventi e mutamenti’, ‘Un uomo felice’, and ‘Innamorato’, he also began to devote himself to one of his passions, musical theater. Cocciante’s most important work is ‘Notre Dame de Paris’, the musical version of Victor Hugo’s great classic, rewritten by poet Luc Plamondon, as well as ‘Le Petit Prince’, based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel. For him, numerous successes arrived that made him famous nationwide and beyond: millions of records sold and many titles that are still part of the history of Italian songwriting. Some of the most famous songs include ‘Margherita’ (1976), ‘Se stiamo insieme’ (1991), ‘Bella senz’anima’ (1974), ‘Quando finisce un amore’ (1974), ‘Celeste Nostalgia’ (1982), ‘Questione di feeling’ (1985), ‘Cervo a primavera’ (1980), ‘Io Canto’ (1979). Regarding his private life, Riccardo Cocciante has been married since 1983 to Catherine Boutet, a former executive of a French record company and the singer-songwriter’s manager. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, the singer talked about how they met: ‘It was by chance.

Cathy was an actress and was about to leave for the United States where she was expected at a school in New York. But Cathy, who was in Rome to say goodbye to a sister, decided after our meeting not to leave to stay with me. In 2022, we celebrate 50 years of working together. And she never regretted the choice of leaving theater for me’. The two together have a single son, David, born in September 1990. David Cocciante is the son of Riccardo Cocciante, born from the love with Catherine Boutet, a former executive at a record company in Paris. Born in 1990, the young man is the only child of the famous Italian singer-songwriter and composer with French citizenship. Not fond of media attention, little is known about David’s life. David lives in the United States of America and works in the field of music and culture. On his Instagram profile, Riccardo Cocciante’s son describes himself as a ‘Graphic Design Ninja’. David is in a relationship with a girl named Amanda Schram, a creative who describes herself on her Instagram profile as a ‘Ceramic Artist’. In an interview some time ago on I Lunatici on Radio 2, Riccardo Cocciante said: ‘What kind of father am I?

We were lucky to have a son, my wife and I. I must say we are lucky because he is on a good path and this is perhaps because we taught him not to take advantage of his father’s success, but to have total autonomy. We have always told David to find his own way and he did. He is exceptional, he is in art design, he doesn’t do what I do, he lives in New York, we helped him find his own path, this must always be important. The danger when you are known is that people live in the reflection of the father and this creates unhappiness’. Parthenope, the latest film by Paolo Sorrentino, has chosen ‘Era già tutto previsto’ by Riccardo Cocciante as the soundtrack for a crucial moment. The one in which the protagonist loses her innocence, embraced between her brother and the boy of the time. The Neapolitan director had already shown himself to be a lover of ‘music that was and still is’, choosing ‘I migliori anni’ by Renato Zero in the film Il divo. This time, however, the song is also heard at the end, as if to close a circle and rewind a tape made of youth-old age. The intimate disturbance with which Cocciante lived is also one of the keys to reading the film, in which youthful carefreeness clashes with harsh reality. In the days following that moment, it was shared by many on social media, extolling the delicacy and romance of that scene. ‘Io…Riccardo Cocciante’ is the name of the show that the singer will bring to the Arcimboldi theater in Milan with 5 dates in March: Sunday 9, Tuesday 11, Friday 14, Sunday 16, and Tuesday 18. In recent months, he celebrated the 50th anniversary of Anima with a concert at the Arena of Verona.