Raggio di Luna

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Comanchero   DE 3 January 14, 1985 (22 weeks)   AT 2 January 15, 1985 (14 weeks)   CH 4th 02/03/1985 (12 weeks)   FR 5 05/04/1985 (29 weeks)   IT 22nd 47/1984 (6 weeks)

Raggio di Luna , also Moon Ray , actually Mandy Ligios (* 1963) is a pop singer.

Life

Ligios was born in France to a Brazilian mother and a Greek father. As a teenager, she gained her first stage experience as a musical actress in Jesus Christ Superstar , Hair and Evita . The stage name Moon Ray comes from this time. In the mid-1980s she was a member of the ensemble of the musical All That Jazz , with which she toured Europe.

While on vacation in Italy, she met the two music producers Aldo Martinelli and Fabrizio Gatto . Together they created the single Comanchero , for which the singer took the name Raggio di Luna - the Italian translation of "Moon Ray" ( German  moon beam ).

The recording reached the top ten sales lists in German-speaking countries and in her home country France in early 1985 and stayed in the charts in Germany for five months. Today it is considered a classic of the Italo Disco . The successor single, released in the same year, was unsuccessful.

Discography

Singles

• 1984: Comanchero
• 1985: Viva
• 1986: Tornado Shout
• 2003: Comanchero (Tuareg vs. Raggio di Luna)

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1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH FR
2. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on September 1, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access).