Raoul Casadei: no funeral. “We will greet him in celebration, with music and Sangiovese”

Cesena, March 15, 2021 – When the door at the end of the square opens, it’s four in the afternoon. The sky promises rain and Mirko Casadei he goes out hugging his mother Pina after going to say goodbye to his father, the great one Raoul Casadei, the ‘smooth king’ defeated on Saturday morning by Covid at 83 years old. Mirko e Pina they walk slowly. The square is empty, because the virus leaves no room even for the affection and condolences of the many who loved him and danced with him.

“I thank them all – Mirko almost whispers – from the big names in music like Basque The Laura Pausini, up to each of those who simply loved Raoul. “Like the man who hesitantly joins him, accompanied by his wife:” Are you Mirko? I came to say hello to your father. “He responds with a gentle smile.” My father he was fine – sighs – had always been good. He kept fit, but it wasn’t enough: pneumonia attacked him hard and left him no way out. The music and the memories remain: I will spread them, to pay homage to them “.

There will be no funeral for Raoul, and here Covid has nothing to do with it. He had always said it in life too: to remember it, better dance.

“You are my sympathy … my Serie A dad. Thank you all for the worldwide embrace you are giving us … it all comes! We will greet him together with one simple, cheerful party and a glass of Sangiovese, smiling as he has always taught us. “Thus, on his Facebook profile, Carolina Casadei, one of the three sons of Raoul, sister of Mirna and Mirko, remembers the ‘King of the Smooth’. In recent days the artist’s family had already excluded funeral ceremonies, secular or religious. Raoul Casadei’s body will be transferred from the ‘Bufalini’ mortuary to Rimini to be cremated.
“I’d like to scatter the ashes where Raoul has always wanted to be: in the middle of the sea – said his son Mirko -. But I don’t know if it can be done, or what my family will decide. These are things we honestly never thought about. “

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