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Cosmopolitan Life

album by Al Di Meola

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ4036606 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cosmopolitan Life is an album by Russian singer and composer Leonid Agutin, featuring guitarist Al Di Meola, released in 2005. It has been released with different track listings by SPV and Ole.

After release of the album in 2005, Di Meola and Agutin performed together live in the United States (Blue Note), Russia, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), Italy ("Italiani nel Mondo"), and other countries.

Track listing

All songs written by Leonid Agutin and Alex Sino.

Editorial summary

“Cosmopolitan Life” enters the record as album by Al Di Meola. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cosmopolitan, Life and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cosmopolitan, Life and album.
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Why this record matters

“Cosmopolitan Life” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cosmopolitan, Life and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4036606. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cosmopolitan Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.