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Raffaella Carrà

, converted into immortal yesterday at 4:45 p.m., just when the news of her death fell in all the newsrooms like her frenetic blow of bangs, came to please the gentlemen, the housewives, the kids.

The same gave one hundred thousand pesetas of the old ones to the Italian cry of

Hello, Raffaella!

that was censured by Pablo VI for showing his superlative navel while dancing the

Tuca Tuca

.

And he still had time to flirt with 20th Century Fox in Hollywood (where he gave Sinatra pumpkins) and reinvent himself, always reinvent himself, as a gay icon -it would be more-, in a hit of electronic music, in dancing at weddings and festivals, in the band. sound of all the lives that have been in the world.

Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni

(Bologna, June 18, 1943), was going to be a prodigy in Italy in black and white of the 50s. At the age of nine, she got her first role in the film

Tormento del passato

, where she drew on that grace that he accompanied her until her last interview in Spain; It was eight months ago, when he intervened by phone in

Sálvame

(Telecinco) to chat with Jorge Javier Vázquez about the movie

Explode, Explode

, where many of his hits were covered. Because Raffaella, who never had children, leaves a legacy of explosive anthems like cluster bombs.

From her experience in Hollywood, the Italian did not keep perhaps the best of memories.

The bloodhounds who hired her to make the Americas wanted to replicate the formula of

Sofia Loren

and

Gina Lollobrigida

.

But La Carrà, with a pizpireta beauty and somewhat modest in the things of life, did not fulfill the stereotype of an exuberant racial Italian.

She didn't do drugs, she didn't drink, she didn't hang out with men at the bubbling Sunset Boulevard parties.

After a movie

made in the USA

and a chapter in the popular series

I Spy

, Raffaella decides to return home to his mother, his

mamma

, where he gets his own television show and begins to sew the wickers of a success that has not stopped until yesterday .

Little by little, Carrà begins to sharpen an unclassifiable character:

a sexual icon but at the same time funny, intelligent and a little clumsy, carnal and yet extremely elegant

.

An explosive, unique, unrepeatable combo, capable of hooking millions of people in front of the television or blowing up the summer in Ibiza with a remix by DJ Bob Sinclair.

Well, she never stood out for her unbridled beauty, or for an outstanding voice timbre, or for the hodgepodge of easy-chorus songs with which she achieved world fame.

With Raffaella it happened, perhaps, what happened with another animal of the scene like Lola Flores, to which the following quote - we do not know if it is real or not - from the

New York Times

is attributed

: «Neither sings nor dances, but lose it.

Behind her apparent ease, she was always an extremely scrupulous and demanding woman with her work.

His landing in our country, by the hand of two television colossi that are the history of Spain -

Hola Raffaella

and

En casa con Raffaella

-, was the beginning of an incombustible love story.

Spain and Carrà, united forever.

To understand television 90 you have to sit, or yes, on that sofa where the

showgirl

Italian jabbered in an impossible Castilian with the stars of the moment and, a minute later, reminded us, in case no we had been Of course, to

make love well you have to come to the south.

Behind her apparent ease, always entrenched in that kind of clumsy joie de vivre,

Raffaella was always an extremely scrupulous and demanding woman with her work

.

Capable, for example, of forcing someone on the production team to go home and change clothes just because they were wearing yellow, the color of bad luck in show business.

And that she controlled to the millimeter the image she wanted to project of herself: from her signature cervical explosion to the wiggle of her naked navel, she was always clear that her body was hers, it was free, it was unique.

"Of course I am a feminist," she

said on occasion, causing more than one headache in the Vatican.

It was perhaps this indomitable character that conquered the LGTBI public. Gays, always on the hunt for new icons to bring together a bit of will, a pinch of backfire and a bit of freedom, found in an already mature Raffaella another goddess to climb to the altars.

And there was no longer Gay Pride in which the Italian did not bust the floats of her ladybugs, who adored her

. And they even gave her the World Pride award in 2017, when Madrid was the collective's world capital, which she received defending "love at any time and for anyone."

Little given to exposing her private life, she was a woman of few but intense passions.

In her younger years and more excitement, she was associated with the Juventus footballer Gino Stacchini and the singer Little Tonny, but her two great loves, cooked over low heat, were the television entrepreneur Gianni Bon Boncompagni and the choreographer and director

Sergio Japino

, in charge yesterday to communicate his death.

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