Italian singer Lucio Dalla, who started out as a jazz clarinettist in the 1960s and went on to perform with opera star Luciano Pavarotti, has died of a heart attack in Switzerland at the age of 68.

Lucio Dalla OMRI was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. Dalla was the composer of "Caruso", a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, ...