At the age of 78 years old it went out Raffaella Carrà, queen of Italian television with the iconic platinum blonde bob who with her songs, still known even by the younger generations, has managed to conquer also abroad, singing also with the joy that distinguished her, of very important issues and considered taboo especially for the time.
In this article we all remember the most famous catchphrases with which theBolognese artist who recently passed away.
Raffaella Carrà, the Queen’s catchphrases
Among his most famous catchphrases, one cannot fail to mention “What music maestro”. The piece, sung by Raffaella Carrà and written by Sergio Paolini, Franco Pisano and Stelio Silvestri, was the theme song of another famous program of the 70s conducted by the late Corrado: “Canzonissima”.
The piece took second place in the Italian music charts of the time and has consecrated Raffaella Carrà as queen of Italian television.
A year later, in 1971, it’s time for the “Tuca Tuca”. Also written by Franco Pisano in four hands with Gianni Boncompagni, it is literally impossible to sing it without imitating the ballet, conceived for the Carrà by Don Lurio, a well-known choreographer and dancer between the 1950s and 1970s.
Gay and female emancipation icon
“Noise”, of the 1974 it is perhaps the song that first of all allows Carrà to be known and appreciated even beyond our borders. It is considered one of the first songs of the genre Italian disco dance and was sung in three other languages: English, French and Spanish. In 1976 instead it is the turn of “You start making love”, which has contributed in a very significant way to strengthening theimage of the Carrà not just how sexy icon, but later also as gay icon. The song was reinterpreted by the DJ Bob Sinclair in 2011 and has been a great success.
And the 1977 when Raffaella Carrà amazes everyone with “Fiesta”, also this cantata in Spanish and French, as well as in Italian, which celebrates the freedom of the woman’s part with a man who does not love her. The following year Raffaella Carrà sings what is perhaps her most famous song. We are talking about “Best wishes”, that becomes anthem of women’s emancipation.
The best known catchphrases: the 80s
They are the 80s when “Pedro” is published. The success made her immediately conquer the fifth position in the radio charts and she liked it so much that she was resumed ten years later for the program “Non è la Rai”.
“Dance dance” instead comes two years after “Pedro”, as the theme song for “Fantastico”, a TV program broadcast by the Rai flagship network, hosted among many others by Raffaella Carrà and Corrado.
Also 50 years later his beginnings between radio and television, his songs continue to be very current and sung by much younger generations. A success really reserved for very few pillars of the entertainment world, due as much to the charisma of the artist as to the combination of seriousness of the themes and the carefree expression of them, which makes the message clearer, simpler and more direct.