29 Facts About Luigi Tenco

Luigi Tenco died on the night of 27 January 1967 after a performance at Sanremo Music Festival.

Luigi Tenco's death was ruled to be the result of suicide, but even decades later, a plethora of evidence in favor of murder was cause to reopen the investigation twice.

The boy was given the name of her husband, Luigi Tenco, who died in a work accident while she was several months pregnant.

Luigi Tenco spent his childhood in Cassine and Ricaldone until 1948, when he moved to Liguria, first to Nervi and then to Genoa, where his mother had a wine shop called Enos in the quarter of La Foce.

Luigi Tenco developed an early interest in music, teaching himself to play guitar, clarinet and saxophone.

Luigi Tenco made his debut in the world of Italian professional music with the band I Cavalieri, which included Giampiero Reverberi and Enzo Jannacci amongst others.

In 1961 Luigi Tenco released his first single under his real name, entitled Quando.

Luigi Tenco started university studying electronic engineering, trying to comply with the wishes of his mother and brother.

Luigi Tenco twice failed the Analytic and Projective Geometry exam.

Luigi Tenco collaborated on the soundtrack of the film, and introduced his friend Fabrizio De Andre through the song La ballata dell'eroe.

Director Luigi Comencini considered Tenco for the role of Bube in his film La ragazza di Bube, based on Carlo Cassola's novel.

Luigi Tenco ultimately chose George Chakiris, the West Side Story star, instead.

Luigi Tenco's mother confirmed that he treated Dalida only as a good friend.

Lino Patruno, a close friend of Luigi Tenco, described his relationship with Dalida as a 'marketing trick'.

In January 1967 Luigi Tenco took part in the Sanremo Music Festival 1967.

That evening, Luigi Tenco sang badly and off time, presumably because he had taken barbiturates with alcohol shortly before the performance to cope with anxiety.

Luigi Tenco died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

Luigi Tenco was apparently upset after learning that his song had been eliminated from the final competition.

Several people close to Luigi Tenco witnessed that he was more upset with the corruption and bribery at the festival and planned to hold a press conference to unveil it all.

Luigi Tenco was buried in Ricaldone in a small ceremony, while the festival officials kept the show going and tried to evade a scandal.

In 2004, on TV program Domenica in, commissario Arrigo Molinari, the detective who led the case, when asked by host Paolo Bonolis, stated that he was sure that Luigi Tenco did not commit suicide and defined his death as "a collective murder".

Luigi Tenco justified his own faults concerning the Tenco inquiry by declaring that he had been prevented from investigating properly.

Luigi Tenco told diners she had been notified that Tenco was at the Savoy and was feeling unwell.

Luigi Tenco later confronted the songwriter, who confessed that he had a gun because someone in the past few weeks had tried to force him off a steep road near Santa Margherita Ligure while he was driving.

In one of these letters, Luigi Tenco writes that his relationship with Dalida was nothing but a clumsy attempt to forget Valeria, who, months before, had left him.

Luigi Tenco describes Dalida as: "spoiled, neurotic, ignorant, who rejects the idea of being defeated in her profession as in private life".

Valentino Luigi Tenco identified those letters as written by his brother.

In 1974, the Luigi Tenco Award was established, and has been held every year since in Sanremo.

Luigi Tenco was played by Alessandro Gassman, and Dalida by Sabrina Ferilli.