| Aldo Donati | |
| Birth Date: | 2 September 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Occupation: | Singer, composer and television personality |
Aldo Donati (2 September 1947 – 24 August 2014) was an Italian singer, composer and television personality.
Born in Rome, he started his career at very young age as a member of the blues-rock group "Gli Arciduchi".[1] In 1974 he was one of the co-founder and a stable member of the vocal group Schola Cantorum, that had a consistent success for the whole decade.[2] [3]
As a solo singer, his main hits are the songs "Canterò canterò canterò", which ranked fourth at the 1980 Sanremo Music Festival, and "Cantando", which entered the competition at the 1982 Festivalbar.[3] [4]
Donati was also very active as a composer, signing among others several songs for Mina. Among his compositions, the most successful was "Canzoni stonate", a 1981 hit by Gianni Morandi which was later covered by several artists, including Andrea Bocelli and Stevie Wonder in a Spanish adaptation ("Cançion desafinada") for the album Amore.[3] [5]
A supporter of S.S. Lazio, for which he composed the hymn "So' già du ore", in the 2000s he was active in television sport programs as an opinionist and occasionally a presenter. In 2009 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, due to an aneurysm, for which he fell into a coma. Never fully recovered, he died on 24 August 2014, aged 66.