Farewell to Marco Occhetti, formerly of the Countryside Cousins

Although he had not been in contact with the Country Cousins ​​for some time, the pain of the sudden disappearance of Marco Occhetti, voice of the group from 1986 to 1994, it is certainly no less strong. The singer, as his daughter Giulia reported on Facebook, he passed away at the age of 62 on April 24 due to cardiac arrest. «I thank everyone for the messages you have written to him. Dad was a mess and he would have liked to have so many people around to remember him “Giulia made known through the official profile of the artist.

It was Marco Occhetti himself who decided to leave the Cousins ​​of the Campagna – together with whom he had made himself known for the falsetto voice that had accompanied the success of songs such as My soul – in 1994 to devote himself to a solo career. Career that, however, never took off. In fact, he was never heard of again until, in 2017, he decided to break the silence with the press by explaining that he was forced to play in the streets of Rome to support himself.

«I was the lead voice of the Country Cousins, even if now you don’t recognize me anymore. Now I find myself playing in the squares of Rome, practically from stars to stalls, which I prefer, because it is more true. But it was tough. I play in Piazza Navona, at the Pantheon, and I make ends meet like this », he had said to Messenger without hiding the clutches with former comrades. “They did not pay me contributions, they invented a thousand subterfuges. They are all high on the money, but at extreme levels. And it ended badly ».

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