Marco Occhetti was 62 years old. He had been the voice of the Country Cousins from 1986 to 1994, after Paul Manners
died Marco Occhettiin arte Kim, former singer of the Cousins of the Countryside who had been part of the group from 1986 to 1994. The artist passed away on Friday evening at 62 years old due to a cardiac arrest: his daughter Giulia communicated it with a post on her father’s Facebook page, also adding that the funeral will be held today, April 25, at 3 pm in Fiano Romano. Greetings to our fraternal friend KIM, of which we have learned of the demise. We will fondly remember you RIP, wrote the Cousins from their official profile.
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Born in Rome on 24 December 1959, Occhetti had taken the place of singer Paul Manners in the Cousins of the Countryside in 1986. With the characteristic falsetto voice had contributed to the success of the group, interpreting famous songs such as My soul, and had been on tour with the band around the world. I thank everyone for the messages you wrote to him – wrote the daughter on Facebook -. Dad was a mess and he wished he had lots of people around to remember him.
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In 1994 Occhetti he had withdrawn from the groupfounded by the twins Ivano and Silvano Michetti in 1970: he was succeeded by Nick Luciani, who became the most recognizable frontman of the band, still the voice of the group today despite a period of separation due to misunderstandings between 2014 and 2020. After the adventure with the Cousins of the Countryside, Marco Occhetti had continued to make music as a soloist, but a few years ago, in some interviews, he had told of being in economic difficulties and to be ended up playing on the street, in the squares of Rome. I was rich, famous and I traveled the world. Now to survive I am forced to perform on the street and I hope in the goodwill of the people to scrape together a few coins. But no one will ever hear me sing “Anima Mia”, it hurts me too much to think about what I no longer have, she said in an interview with the weekly DiPi in 2017.
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The singer had not spared criticism of his former bandmates: They did not pay me the contributions, they invented a thousand subterfuges. They are all high on the money, but at extreme levels. And it ended badly. Those cold people. After my exit, they put a spoke in the wheel. They didn’t want me to use the band name. But for the first 3-4 years I lived in the wake of popularity as a former voice of the Country Cousins. Then things went downhill and the situation worsened, he told the newspaper Il Messaggero.
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