- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco
- Nicknames
- Lightnin' Lou Christie
- Lugee
- Lou Christie was a popular singer from the Pittsburgh area, a former choirboy with no formal musical training, who hit it big in the early 1960s as a teenager with two songs featuring his very high-pitched falsetto voice, "The Gypsy Cried" and "Two Faces Have I." Several years later he hit it big again, with two more hits using his falsetto voice (though not as prominently as on his previous hits), "Lightning Strikes Again" and "Rhapsody in the Rain." The latter had the distinction of being one of the first songs to be banned from many radio stations because of its perceived "suggestive" lyrics.
- IMDb mini biography by: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpouseGeorgina Francesca Winfield(November 14, 1971 - June 18, 2025) (his death, 2 children)
- ChildrenBianca Lucia SaccoChristopher Joseph Winfield Sacco
- ParentsMarcella Hattie DobrinskiPeter Jerry Sacco
- RelativesAmy Rose Sacco (Pasquarelli)(Sibling)
- Three octave vocal range
- The backup singers on Christie's hit record "Lightnin' Strikes Again" were not The Angels, as is sometimes reported, but Bernadette Carroll, Denise Ferri and Peggy Davison.
- On May 18, 2014, his only son Christopher Sacco was thrown from a motorcycle and killed in Houston, TX, when he collided with a car.
- Had a three octave vocal range.
- Served in the Army.
- Briefly lived in England and Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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