Don Marino Barreto Jr. (8 December 1925 – 10 December 1971) was an Italian
pop singer and musician.
Career
Born Marino Barreto y Rubio in
Matanzas
Matanzas (Cuban ) is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas. Known for its poets, culture, and Afro-Cuban folklore, it is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas (Spanish ''Bahia de Matanzas''), east ...
, Barreto moved to Italy in 1949, beginning his career as a
contrabass
Contrabass (from it, contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchest ...
ist. His main success was the song "
Arrivederci", which peaked the Italian hit parade in 1959 and won a Gold Record.
Other Top 5 hits include the songs "Telefonami", "Visino d'angelo", "È vero", "Non lasciarmi".
His success declined in the early 1960s, nonetheless Barreto continued his activity performing live until his death for
cirrhosis
Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is the impaired liver function caused by the formation of scar tissue known as fibrosis due to damage caused by liver disease. Damage causes tissue repai ...
on 8 December 1971 in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, two days after his 46th birthday.
He is sometimes confused with his half-brother,
Don Marino Barreto (1907–1995), who had a singing career in Britain.
[
Val Wilmer, ‘Barreto, Don Marino (1907–1995)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200]
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1925 births
1971 deaths
People from Matanzas
Italian pop singers
Italian bass guitarists
Cuban emigrants to Italy
Deaths from cirrhosis
20th-century Italian male singers
20th-century Cuban male singers
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