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Raffaella Carrà, pop icon of the golden age of Italian design
There is a moment of Italian television from 1967 where Raffaella Carrà – here at one of her first experiences as a presenter and with a pompously combed hairdo still far from the iconic bob she’ll be soon known for – hosts the show Tempo di Samba (Samba Time). Together with her guests Roberto Carlos and Astrud Gilberto, Raffaella moves within a set design that combines psychedelic-patterned steps, on which the orchestra conducted by the maestro Cichellero stands, and a metaphysics-flavoured scaffolding made of metallic pipes (Japan pavilion at the Biennale anyone?).
Fast forward three years and the minimalistic and psychedelic scenes designed by Armando Nobili - similarly to the essential ones by Carlo Cesarini di Senigallia for Studio Uno - leave room, on a both architectonic and symbolic level, to those by Tullio Zitkowsky. While Carrà - with a far from stupid light-heartedness - contributes to the
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Hagiography of Raffaella Carrà
The 1976 single A far l’amore comincia tu reconfirms Carrà as an erotic icon.
“If he takes you onto an empty bed / Give him back that emptiness / Make him see it’s not a game / Make him understand what you want” sings Raffaella in a tight flared jumpsuit, with a deep cut that leaves her entire back naked.
The song is an international success, selling over 20 million copies and becoming her best-selling and best-known single of the soubrette in the world. It gets translated in several languages, most notably in the UK with the title Do it Do it again.
It’s so timeless that almost 40 years later French DJ Bob Sinclar remixes it in his single Far l’amore, which is then used in a scen of Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy award-winning rulle The Great Beauty (2013).
In the 1980s Raffaella’s public persona shifts from sex symbol into a more maternal character. In 1984 she renews her contract with the national TV for an exorbitant figure. “Immor
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Raffaella Carrà
Italian singer and actress (1943–2021)
Raffaella Carrà | |
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Carrà in 1980 | |
| Born | Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (1943-06-18)18 June 1943 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | 5 July 2021(2021-07-05) (aged 78) Rome, Italy |
| Resting place | Porto Santo Stefano cemetery |
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| Years active | 1952–2021 |
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| Instrument | Vocals |
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Musical artist | |
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (18 June 1943 – 5 July 2021), known professionally as Raffaella Carrà (Italian:[rafːaˈɛlːakaˈrːa]) and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model.[1] She is often widely considered a pop culture icon in Europe and Latin America,[2][3] between the 1970s and 1980s she became a pioneer of feminism and women's rights in the music and television industry,