Christian (singer)
Italian singer
Gaetano Cristiano Vincenzo Rossi (8 September 1943 – 26 September 2025), best known as Christian, was an Italian singer, mainly successful in the first half of the 1980s.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, the son of a policeman and a housewife, at young age Rossi was a football player for Palermo and Mantova F.C., but had to quit for a cardiac arrhythmia. He started his career as a singer in the early 1970s, and got his first hit in 1980, with the song "Daniela" which ranked at the seventh place on the Italian hit parade. Often compared with Julio Iglesias, with whom he shared some musical authors and a similar style, between 1982 and 1984 Christian had four singles peaking at first place on the Italian hit parade. Between 1982 and 1990 he also entered the main competition at the Sanremo Music Festival six times, ranking third in 1984 with the song "Cara".
Rossi married the singer Dora Moroni in 1987; the couple divorced in 1997. They had a son, Alfredo.
Rossi died at the Policlinico of Milan from an intracerebral haemorrhage on 26 September 2025, at the age of 82.
Discography
Albums
1977 – Piccola incosciente
1982 – Un'altra vita un altro amore
1983 – Christian
1984 – Cara
1985 – Sere
1986 – Insieme
1987 – Quando l'amore...
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