Editing Domenico Modugno (section)

== Final years ==
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In 1984, Modugno suffered a severe stroke and remained partially paralyzed; this forced him to abandon his artistic career and devote himself to rehab.<ref name=bio />

From 1986, he worked for the rights of disabled people, and in June 1987, he was elected congressman for [[Turin]] in the Italian Parliament, in the ranks of the [[Radical Party (Italy)|Radical Party]], a liberal-social political group.<ref name=bio /> In the past he had supported the campaigns of the [[Italian Socialist Party]] and one for divorce, in addition to criticizing the human rights violations by the regime of [[Augusto Pinochet]], that cost him a denial of entry in [[Chile under Pinochet|Chile]], where he had been scheduled to hold a concert.<ref name=bio /> In this last stage of his life, instead, he was very active in social issues, fighting against the inhumane conditions of patients in the [[Agrigento]] [[psychiatric hospital]].<ref name=bio />

Modugno returned to the music scene, definitively (he already held a concert for former inmates of Agrigento's mental asylum, in 1989), in 1992–1993. His last song was ''Delfini'' (''Dolphins''), in 1993 with his son, Massimo.<ref name=bio />

On 6 August 1994, Modugno died at the age of 66, from a heart attack, on the island of [[Lampedusa]], south of Sicily, while he was in his home by the sea.<ref name=bio /> His beach villa was put up for sale in 2020. It is located on Rabbits' Islet beach, the location is part of a natural protected reserve with limestones and crags.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/spettacolo/lampedusa-in-vendita-la-villa-appartenuta-a-domenico-modugno_23366393-202002a.shtml|access-date=6 October 2020|website=www.tgcom24.mediaset.it|title=Lampedusa, in vendita la villa appartenuta a Domenico Modugno}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Silvia Marchetti|title=A hit song writer's former villa on one of the world's best beaches is up for sale|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/volare-domenico-modugno-villa-for-sale-lampedusa/index.html|access-date=6 October 2020|website=CNN|language=en}}</ref>