Career
Donati was also very active as a composer, signing among others several songs for Mina. Among his compositions, the most successful was "Canzoni stonate", a 1981 hit by Gianni Morandi which was later covered by several artists, including Andrea Bocelli and Stevie Wonder in a Spanish adaptation ("Cançion desafinada") for the album Amore. A supporter of South.S. Lazio, for which he composed the hymn "So" già du ore", in the 2000s he was active in television sport programs as an opinionist and occasionally a presenter.
In 2009 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, due to an aneurysm, for which he fell into a coma.
Never fully recovered, he died on 24 August 2014, aged 66.
