Desy Lumini, best known as Daisy Lumini (18 August 1936 – 18 August 1993), was an Italian composer, singer and stage actress. Born in Florence, at young age Lumini graduated in piano and composition, and began her career as a composer of soundtracks and songs; she later came to fame by participating in numerous Italian television shows. Lumini, who spoke five languages fluently, during her career also toured in the United States (where she participated at ''

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'' and sang at

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), France and Germany. In the sixties, after a brief period in the cabaret, she devoted herself to the research and the diffusion of Tuscan folk music, recording many albums with the popular repertoire and put it on shows with the stage company of Beppe Chierici. After working in contemporary musical theater, in the eighties Lumini started a successful collaboration with

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

, winning the

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Award in 1985. In 1993, the day of her birthday, she died by

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along with her husband

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, struck by an incurable disease, by jumping from the viaduct under construction on the Bilancino dam near

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