Raffaella Carrà

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Raffaella Carrà (2008)

Raffaella Carrà [raffaˈɛlla karˈra] (born June 18, 1943 as Raffaella Roberta Pelloni in Bologna , † July 5, 2021 in Rome ) was an Italian actress , singer and television presenter . After an international film career in the 1960s, which also included a guest appearance in Hollywood , Raffaella Carrà has worked as a pop singer and showgirl in numerous countries since the 1970s. In addition to successes in Western Europe, the artist also appeared in Russia, Japan and South America, where she found a large audience. Since the 1980s she has been one of the most popular and best-paid television stars in Italy and also had her own television programs on Spanish television.

Life

Raffaella grew up with her mother Iris and grandmother Andreina in Bellaria-Igea Marina , a small town in the province of Rimini , after the father left the family for another woman when Raffaela was one year old. Her training began at the age of four with classical ballet lessons . When she was eight, she moved to Rome with her family. Here she received singing lessons and switched to modern dance at the age of 15 . Debuting in her first supporting role in film as early as 1952, she studied acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and began her film career in 1960 - still under the name Raffaella Pelloni. Most of the films of these early years can be assigned to the genre of the Italian sandal films that were very successful in the 1960s, but not very demanding . This was followed by international productions in which she worked with well-known actors such as Jean Marais , Curd Jürgens , Maurice Chevalier , Michel Piccoli and Marcello Mastroianni . With the role of Gabriella in the 1965 film Colonel by Ryan's Express , she also achieved a Hollywood success . Directed by Mark Robson , she starred in this anti-war film opposite Frank Sinatra , Edward Mulhare and Trevor Howard . In the mid-1960s, Raffela Carrà switched to the comedic subject and from then on she was mostly seen in films by the Commedia all'italiana . The German-Italian coproduction Why did I just say yes twice? , where she performed together with numerous German-speaking artists such as Peter Weck , Edith Hancke , Fritz Muliar , Heinz Erhardt and Willy Millowitsch .

Raffaella Carrà's first television appearance took place in 1962 on a music program on the Italian state television RAI . In the mid-1960s she was Domenico Modugno's partner in a television series . In the following years she rose to become one of the most popular artists in Italy. With Canzonissima , her first own television show, she always reached an audience of millions from 1970 to 1972. At the same time, her first record Raffaella was released in Italy in 1970 . In 1974 the program Milleluci followed , with which it was also internationally successful. In these Saturday evening shows, she moderated and conducted interviews, but also acted as an actress, danced and sang Schlager. Her first great success was the song Tuca Tuca , written by Gianni Boncompagni, with whom Raffaella Carrà lived for a while. In addition to television work, Raffaella Carrà went on extensive tours through Italy and gave numerous concerts in Western Europe, Russia, Canada, Japan and South America.

One of her greatest international successes was the song A far l'amore comincia tu . A French version was published with Puisque tu l'aimes, dis-le-lui and a Spanish version with En El Amor Todo Es Empezar . The English version Do It, Do It Again was Raffaella Carrà's only hit in Great Britain. In 1977 there was also a German version of Tanze Samba mit mir , sung by Tony Holiday . Raffaella Carrà also reached the German audience through appearances in Ilja Richter's disco , the Udo Jürgens show and the Star Parade . In the following four years she made repeated guest appearances as a singer in Argentina in front of hundreds of thousands of listeners. After separating from Gianni Boncompagni in the early 1980s, she met the choreographer Sergio Japino in Buenos Aires, with whom she had lived in Italy since 1982.

In cooperation with Lotteria Italia , the television shows Millemilioni 1980 and Fantastico 3 1982 achieved ratings of more than 20 million viewers. In 1983 she made a guest appearance with the song Soli sulla luna at the Sanremo Festival , an event at which she also led the program in 2001 . From 1983 to 1985 she presented Pronto, Raffaella? , the first lunchtime show on Italian television. The television programs Buonasera Raffaella 1985 and Domenica In 1987 followed. The RAI's three-year contract with Raffaella Carrà from 1984 to 1987 guaranteed the artist a total of 4.5 billion lire (equivalent to around 125,000 euros per month). The then Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi demanded in vain for the contract to be terminated because of the amount of the fee, to which Raffaella Carrà replied with the statement: "I work ten hours a day, the whole country loves my program, and nobody gets poorer because of me." In 1987 Raffaella Carrà moved to Silvio Berlusconi's private broadcaster Canale 5 with a contract worth over seven billion lire . The Raffaella Carrà Show ran here in 1988 and Il principe azzurro in 1989 . She then returned to the state RAI, where she first moderated Raffaella venerdì sabato e domenica - Ricomincio da Due and Week end con Raffaella before appearing in Fantastico 12 in 1991 with Johnny Dorelli . From 1992 to 1995 she worked for the Spanish television channel TVE , where she participated in the television shows ¡Hola Raffaella! , A las 8 con Raffaella , and En casa con Raffaella also reached an audience of millions. In 1996 she returned to Italy, where she hosted the successful lottery show Carràmba che sorpresa at RAI until 2002 , which achieved ratings of up to 30%. With the follow-up programs Sogni (2004), and Amore (2006), Italy's most popular female television star built on earlier successes. In 2008 it returned after 2 years with the successful lottery show Carramba che fortuna , this time the ratings reached up to 37%.

In 2011, Carrà commented on the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf for Italian television and gave the Italian rating in the final. As part of Italy's big comeback , after a thirteen-year absence from the ESC, she appeared as a promoter for the RAI , in the form of TV spots and numerous interviews for television and the press. Before that, she had already commented on the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 , from Belgrade , for Spanish television and moderated special programs on the subject. In 2013, 2014 and 2016 she was a mentor (“coach”) for the Carrà team at the talent show The Voice of Italy . Her trademark were the ties that she mostly wore when she performed.

Raffaella Carrà died on July 5, 2021 at the age of 78.

Filmography

Discography (selection)

Chart placements
Explanation of the data
Albums
Replay
  IT 32 11/28/2013 (3 weeks)
Ogni volta che è Natale
  IT 11 December 06, 2018 (5 weeks)
Singles
A far l'amore comincia tu (love affair)
  DE 4th 09/05/1977 (23 weeks)
  CH 3 10/15/1977 (13 weeks)
Tanti auguri
  DE 45 04/17/1978 (1 week)
Do It Do It Again
  UK 9 04/15/1978 (12 weeks)
Far l'amore ( Bob Sinclar & Raffaella Carrà)
  DE 46 05/20/2011 (6 weeks)
  AT 23 05/13/2011 (7 weeks)
  CH 16 05/08/2011 (18 weeks)
  IT 6th 04/28/2011 (7 weeks)

Albums

  • Raffaella (1971)
  • Raffaella Carrà (1971)
  • Raffaella Senzarespiro (1972)
  • Scatola a sorpresa (1973)
  • Felicità tà tà (1974)
  • Milleluci (1974)
  • Forte forte forte (1976)
  • Raffaella Carra (en castellano) (1976)
  • A far l'amore comincia tu (published in D as Liebelei ) (1977)
  • Fiesta (1977)
  • Raffaella (1978)
  • Applause (1979)
  • Mi spendo tutto (1980)
  • Latino (US LP) (1980)
  • Raffaella Carra (Spanish LP) (1981)
  • Raffaella Carrà '82 (1982)
  • Fatalità (1983)
  • Bolero (1984)
  • Dolce far niente (canta en español) (1984)
  • Raffaella Carrá (Spanish LP) (1984)
  • Fidati (1985)
  • Curiosità (12 ″ Mini-LP) (1986)
  • Raffaella (1988)
  • Inviato speciale (1990)
  • Raffaella Carrà (1991)
  • hola raffaella (Spanish LP + CD) (1993)
  • Fiesta - Grandes Exitos (1996)
  • Carràmba che rumba! (1996)
  • Replay The Album (2013)
  • Ogni volta che è Natale (2018)

literature

Web links

Commons : Raffaella Carrà  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raffaella Carrà condurrà l'Eurovision Song Contest ( Memento from May 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Italy: Raffaella Carra to host a special Eurovision show? on ESCtoday from April 11, 2011
  3. ↑ The Voice of Italy, announcement by RAI 2 from April 2013 ( Memento from April 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Addio a Raffaella Carrà: aveva 78 anni. In: Rockol.it. July 5, 2021, accessed July 5, 2021 (Italian).
  5. ↑ DE AT CH UK
personal data
SURNAME Carrà, Raffaella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pelloni, Raffaella Roberta (maiden name); Pelloni, Raffaella
SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian actress, singer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 2021
Place of death Rome