Roberto Vecchioni today 80 years old remembers his fight against the disease: three tumors and alcoholism. What did the songwriter have
Roberto Vecchioni in various interviews has never hidden his personal battle against the disease. It has often been thought that Luci’s voice at San Siro had suffered from Parkinson’s disease but this is fake news since he never mentioned it. Instead he explained that during his life he had faced a dark period linked to various forms of cancer but that he had lived every day as an adventure. He spoke of a game that should be played like any card game. It was also explained in detail where Roberto Vecchioni had the tumor: kidney, bladder and lung. He underwent operations and is in good health today. However, the disease is not the only thing that has had the voice of Call me love again since he confessed to a pathology that he wanted to overcome in order to be able to devote himself 100% to his children and grandchildren. Just realizing the attention that he subtracted from his private life with his family, from the most beautiful and exciting moments to spend together, he came to realize that one more glass meant having an addiction. Roberto Vecchioni has admitted that he had suffered from alcoholism in the past but decided to stop drinking by becoming completely teetotal, a story that dates back more than a decade.
Roberto Vecchioni sons: tragedy and multiple sclerosis
Roberto Vecchioni’s life was unfortunately also studded with many moments of suffering. In addition to illness and alcoholism, the singer-songwriter only recently had to deal with the death of his son Arrigo. His disappearance took place on April 18, 2023: he is the third child of four children, had with his current wife Daria Colombo. The cause of Arrigo Vecchioni’s death has never been revealed. An artist like his father, he wrote plays and poems in rhyme for compositions, with the singer-songwriter he participated in the Festival delle Generazioni in Florence. Roberto Vecchoni has four children: Francesca, with his first wife Irene Bozzi, Carolina, Arrigo and Edoardo, the last three born from his relationship with Daria Colombo. The youngest Edoardo, born in 1992, suffers from multiple sclerosis, a disease that he has decided to address publicly in the book Sclero. The game of emperors where he talks about the first symptoms and first treatments facing everything as if it were a game. Regarding the illness of his son, the lyrics of the song Le Rose Blu by Roberto Vecchioni are very touching, a dialogue with God where the artist offers to renounce everything, however, allowing a loved one to be able to achieve healing. The voice of Samarcanda chooses not only to give his life but everything he has dreamed of and everything he has experienced to allow the blue roses to flourish again. It is not the only song that Vecchioni has dedicated to one of his sons, in his career he also wrote A long goodbye for Carolina.