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Italian singer Raffaella Carrà honored with square in Madrid
- Italian singer Raffaella Carrà, a 20th-century pop icon both at home and in many Spanish-speaking countries, has had a square in Spain's capital named in her honor one year after her death. Madrid’s town hall held a ceremony Wednesday to inaugurate the square with a plaque bearing an illustrated portrait of the performer who died last July at age 78. The town hall said it wanted to “pay homage to the Italian artist, who had strong links to Spain and its capital, where she pursued a good part of her professional career.”
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Raffaella Carra, Italian singer and TV presenter, dies at 78
Raffaella Carra, one of Italy's best-loved singers and television presenters, who became almost as famous as a symbol of sexual liberation in Spain and South America as in her own country, died on Monday aged 78. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Carra, "with her laughter and her generosity accompanied generations of Italians and took the name of Italy around the world". Carra, whose real name was Raffaella Pelloni, shot to fame as a pop singer in the 1970s when her sensual dancing, rev
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Italian TV: Beloved entertainer Raffaella Carra' dies at 78
Raffaella Carra’, for decades one of Italian television's most beloved entertainers, a woman affectionately nicknamed the “queen of Italian TV," died Monday at 78, Italian state TV quoted her family as saying. Rai state TV read a statement from the star’s family, announcing that she died in Rome after a long illness. With her energetic presence and strong, almost husky singing voice, the trim Carra' was a wildly popular staple in the early heyday decades of Rai, especially when it was the only
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Oscar Winner Mariela Besuievsky, Nacho Alvarez Talk Toronto, San Sebastian-Bound ‘My Heart Goes Boom!’
While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing, all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two. Sold by Latido Films, “Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), the debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an RTVE Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next […]
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Latido Films Brings ’70s Music Comedy ‘My Heart Goes Boom!’ to the Market (EXCLUSIVE)
Latido Films has picked up international sales rights to musical comedy “Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), a Spanish-Italian co-production, based on the hit songs by Italian singer Raffaella Carrà. Produced by Mariela Besuievsky at Madrid-based Tornasol Films and Carlotta Calori at Rome's Indigo Film, the movie marks the feature debut by Uruguayan-Spanish director Nacho […]
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The brand brought in high-energy and high-glamour by channeling the exuberant spirit of the Italian pop legend Raffaella Carra.
