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By La Provence (with AFP)
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Corsican singer Petru Guelfucci, author-performer of the song “Corsica” and founding member of the group Canta u populu corsu, died in Marseille on Friday, AFP told his son Petru Santu and composer. The singer, often presented as one of the most beautiful voices in Corsican song, was hospitalized in Marseille and died at the age of 66 from a long illness.
“I was his official composer, I am very sorry, it is more than 45 years of collaboration and friendship”, Christophe Mac-Daniel, who wrote the music and arrangements for the song “Corsica”, told AFP. His death provoked many reactions in the Île de Beauté, including the group I Muvrini who greeted, in Corsican, “fraternally, memory and pure voice” of the singer.
Born on March 6, 1955 in Sermano (Haute-Corse), one of the cradles of Corsican polyphony, he founded the group Canta u Populu Corsu in 1973 with Natale Luciani, Minicale, Ceccè Buteau and Jean-Paul Poletti before launching. in a solo career in 1987. He was very popular in Quebec where he got a gold record in 1993 for the album “Corsica” which featured the song of the same name. He also won two Music Victories, in 1991 with the group Les Nouvelles Polyphonies corses and in 1995 with the group Voce di Corsica.
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