Is dead Fausto Pinna, partner Iva Zanicchi. The news, given by The Rest of the Pugwas confirmed by the Emilian singer herself: “A very strong pain”, said Zanicchi in the most difficult moment. Fausto Pinna, 74 years old, passed away in Lesmo, a town in Brianza where he had been living with his wife Iva for some time. Music producer and record producer, the man was ill with cancer, a tumor in the lungs which had recently worsened.
Iva Zanicchi and Fausto Pinna at Dancing with the Stars, in 2022.
Marco Provvisionato / ipa-agency.netWith Iva Zanicchi it was love since 1987. A story that lasted a lifetime, during which they never felt the need to get married, even though they considered themselves husband and wife. They crossed paths for the first time during the making of the album Dear sisters, and from there an inseparable professional and personal partnership was born. Iva Zanicchi was then leaving the marriage that had ended with Antonio Ansoldimarried in 1967 and father of his only daughter, Michela. With Fausto, however, it was a completely different story. «When you see that your man is so in love, it galvanizes you. I wake up horrible in the morning and he says to me “How beautiful you are” and then I give him a kiss, the singer had told the Corriere della Sera on the occasion of Sanremo 2022.

One of the last public images of the couple.
Marco Provvisionato / ipa-agency.netIn 2021, to complicate life, the diagnosis of cancer. «He smoked ninety cigarettes a day, but we didn’t expect it, he seemed to be fine, instead after that terrible diagnosis they only gave him two months because it seemed that nothing more could be done”, said the singer and presenter in an interview with Moreover, “I did everything I could to not let that drama weigh on him, I encouraged him in his treatments, I was always close to him to try to prolong his life until, almost miraculously, little by little, he started to feel better.” Then the news of the relapse, as often happens after the first treatments with positive results, and the hardest days for the family. “I’m moving on because I love him, I want what’s best for him and seeing him like this causes me great pain. If you have love and compassion, you always find the strength to stand by someone who is experiencing great difficulties in the end… I make him feel everything I feel for him, because he needs it.” And so it was until the end.

The couple in one of their last public outings together.
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Pinna and Zanicchi in 1999.
Maurizio D’Avanzo Arc / ipa-agency.netSource: Vanity Fair

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