Italian singer Gabriella Ferri, who was well-known and loved, passed quite suddenly and in a highly contentious manner.
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Gabriella Ferri was one of the most well-known artists in Italian music of her generation with a 34-year career and 14 studio albums to her credit. She is a voice of popular music from Rome, but she is not only from Rome. She rose to stardom in the middle of the 1960s singing songs like The Society of Magnaccioni with Luisa De Santis, and she even appeared on the Mike Bongiorno-hosted television program The Fair of Dreams. The duo, who also made their acting debut in Tullio Piacentini's 1965 musical film 008 Operation Rhythm, enjoyed immediate popularity.
Gabriella Ferri later rose to fame as a soloist and worked with the Bagaglino variety show. In 1969, she also took part in the Sanremo Festival alongside Stevie Wonder, however she didn't make much money.
However, her career was cut short rather soon: in 2000, at the age of just 58, she made the decision to leave the stage, mostly because of the issues with depression she had been experiencing recently. She continued to make appearances two years later, taking part in TV shows including Let's Start Well and Good Sunday, and performing some of her earlier songs. After the 2000 publication of Canti diVersi, it must be noted that she stopped producing albums.
Then, on April 3, 2004, Gabriella Ferri, a resident of Corchiano, in the province of Viterbo, passed very suddenly after falling from a window.
The singer's actual cause of death has long been a topic of considerable debate. Given the depression issues she still had and the fact that Gabriella Ferri had already tried suicide in 1975 after the loss of her father, some have speculated that she committed suicide. The woman's family has always had a different perspective and suggested that she may have had an illness as a result of the antidepressant medications she was taking.
This assertion would be supported by the absence of a farewell message or any explanation of her gesture, as well as the fact that a few days later she was scheduled to appear on a special episode of the Maurizio Costanzo Show, which she had previously stated she would do anything to avoid missing.
In the Sala Protomoteca of the Campidoglio, where the funeral chamber had been put up by the will of the then mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni, thousands of Roman residents came to pay their respects to her. She was later laid to rest in the Verano Cemetery, also in Rome, after her burial was held in the Santa Maria Liberatrice church in Testaccio, the area where she was born.
Private life of Gabriella Ferri
The daughter of a traveling candy vendor, Gabriella Ferri was born in Rome on September 18, 1942. As a young child, she quickly gave up on her academics and began singing and working odd jobs to support herself.
She first met the young diplomat Giancarlo Riccio in the latter part of the 1960s; they were married on June 20, 1967, and afterwards moved to Kinshasa, Zaire. The singer was soon obliged to ask her husband for a transfer to Rome due to their distance from Italy and their inactivity, but their marriage was now in trouble, and they eventually divorced in 1970.
During a trip of Latin America in 1972, Gabriella Ferri met Seva Borzak, the head of RCA's South American branch, in Caracas, Venezuela. In the same year that they got married, Seva Jr., the singer from Rome's sole kid, was born.
Source: Contra-Ataque