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Tuca Tuca
"Tuca Tuca" is the fifth single by Italian pop singer Raffaella Carrà, published in 1971 by the Italian record company RCA Italiana. Both the single and its b-side song ''Vi dirò la verità'' were included on the album ''Raffaella Carrà'', produced the same year by BMG Ricordi. In Italy the single achieved the fourth position on the sales chart, thanks in part to the popularity of dance the created for it. Background On 13 November 1971, while hosting the Italian variety show ''Canzonissima'', Carrà performed her new single "Tuca Tuca" wearing a top which showed her navel. She was the first woman to show it on Italian public television, at a time in which it was unusual for women to show their bodies, which caused controversy for the conservative TV network RAI and was called "too provocative" by the Vatican newspaper ''L'Osservatore Romano''. In the same episode, Carrà and dancer performed choreography for the song, created by Don Lurio at the suggestion from producer Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaella Carrà
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (18 June 1943 – 5 July 2021), known professionally as Raffaella Carrà () and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model. She is often widely considered a pop culture icon in Europe and Latin America, between the 1970s and 1980s she became a pioneer of feminism and women's rights in the music and television industry, as well as a music icon, gay icon, LGBT icon and an icon fashion icon, of fashion and design. Carrà released 25 studio albums in 37 countries, between Europe and Latin America, selling over 60 million records worldwide, which includes "A far l'amore comincia tu", "Fiesta (Raffaella Carrà album), Fiesta", "Forte forte forte / A far l'amore comincia tu, Forte forte forte", "Pedro (song), Pedro", "Tanti auguri" and "Tuca Tuca", singing in Italian, Spanish, English and French. She became a successful TV host and personality in Italy, Spain and Argentina, being recognized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Lurio
Donald Benjamin Lurio (15 November 1929 – 26 January 2003) was an American-born Italian dancer, choreographer, actor, singer and television presenter for RAI, the Italian radio and television public service. Biography Born in New York City in a family of Italian Jewish origin, Lurio operated a dance studio on Broadway theatre with Bob Fosse and Jack Cole. In 1957 the group toured Europe and Lurio decided to settle in Italy. He appeared in several Italian films and TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s. He also appeared in a handful of British films. He choreographed the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with his ensemble, The Don Lurio Dancers. One of his most popular number, the song "Testa, Spalla" ("Head, Shoulder"), was premiered on the show ''Hai visto mai?'' in 1973 when performed in a duet with showgirl Lola Falana. Openly gay (which was considered scandalous at the time, and not only in Italy), Lurio had a long-term relationship with Livio Costagli, who died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaella Carrà Songs
Raffaella is a Hebrew female name taken from the male name Rafael, meaning "God has healed". ;People *Raffaella Baracchi (born 1964), retired Italian actress *Raffaella Barker (born 1964), English author *Raffaella Brutto (born 1988), Italian snowboarder *Raffaella Calloni (born 1983), Italian volleyball player * Raffaella Camet Bertello (born 1992), Peruvian volleyball player *Raffaella Carrà (1943–2021), Italian TV hostess, singer and actress *Raffaella De Laurentiis (born 1954), Italian film producer *Raffaella Fico (born 1988), Italian showgirl, singer and model *Raffaella Imbriani (born 1973), German judoka *Raffaella Modugno (born 1988), Italian model *Raffaella Reggi Raffaella Reggi (; born 27 November 1965) is an Italian TV pundit and former professional tennis player. Career As a junior, Reggi won the Orange Bowl 16 and under in 1981. She was a member of the Continental Players Cup Team in 1982. Reggi ... (born 1965), Italian former professional tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musica E Dischi
() was the oldest and longest-running music industry publication in Italy. In 1961, ''Billboard'' defined the publication as the "Italian record bible". History It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy, on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former record executive at La Voce Del Padrone-Columbia-Marconiphone (VCM, now EMI Italy). Originally, the magazine was published under the name ''Musica'' (''Dischi'' was added on the second edition) on a monthly basis. In the 1960s, started to issue a list of best-seller music recordings nationally. After the death of Aldo Mario in 1968, his son Mario De Luigi, already reviewer and editor of the magazine since 1958, became the director. In 1999, the official website was opened. On its 735th issue in December 2009, director Mario De Luigi announced that from March 2010 they would publish an online magazine and stop the publication of the physical magazine after 65 years. In June 2014, the mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Pisano
Franco Pisano (10 December 1922 – 6 January 1977) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, and jazz musician. Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, the older brother of the composer Berto Pisano, he studied violin, classical guitar, and piano at the Conservatory of Cagliari. He started his career as a musician with his brother in the jazz group Asternovas. Later in his career he concentrated on composing pop songs and musical scores for films and television programs. He died of liver cancer at the age of 54. Selected filmography * ''Operation Counterspy'' (1965) * '' Superargo Versus Diabolicus'' (1966) * ''How to Kill 400 Duponts'' (1967) * '' Goldface, the Fantastic Superman'' (1967) * ''Basta guardarla'' (1970) * ''The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn ''La vergine, il toro e il capricorno'' (internationally released as ''The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn'', ''Erotic Exploits of a Sexy Seducer'', ''Not Tonight Darling'' (not to be confused with the 1971 British d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ANSA (news Agency)
The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA; literally "National Associated Press Agency") is the leading news agency in Italy and one of the top ranking in the world. ANSA is a not-for-profit cooperative, whose members and owners are 36 leading news organizations in Italy. History In January 1945, three representatives of the major political forces of the Italian Resistance, Giuseppe Liverani, managing director of ''Il Popolo'' (The People), Primo Parrini, managing director of ''Avanti!'', and Amerigo Terenzi, CEO of ''L'Unità'', advanced the possibility to organize a news agency as a cooperative of newspapers, not controlled by the government nor private groups, replacing the work of the Agenzia Stefani, moved to Milan to meet the information needs of the Italian Social Republic. Their proposal had the approval from the Allied military authorities who, a few months later, favored the success of the new agency by closing the Italian ''Notizie Nazioni Unite'' (NNU, United Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter. Sordi is considered one of the most important actors in the history of Italian cinema and one of the best in commedia all'italiana. Together with Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi he formed a quartet that starred in the most popular movies of this genre. His trio with Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani was one of the most prominent in the Rome, Roman cinema. Sordi established himself as an icon from a career that spanned seven decades of Italian cinema with his skills in comedy and light drama. He started as a voice actor and a theater actor, but eventually grew to fame as a comedian. In the 1960s, he started interpreting complex dramatic characters, as well as directing his own films: his credits as a director include 19 movies. Sordi won five Nastro d'argento, ten David di Donatello, a Golden Globe, a Golden Lion for Lifetime A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai Teche
Rai Teche is a company that manages all archived material that has been produced and broadcast by Italian national public broadcaster RAI throughout its history. History The company, originally called ''Teche e servizi tematici/educativi RAI'', was formed in 1995 to categorise and preserve all materials documenting the history of Italian television from over 20 different channels. In 1999, the old databases were merged and a multimedia catalogue of all broadcasts from the three main channels was published online, along with more than 300,000 hours of historical TV material, prior to the launch of the online radio station in 2000. Thematic channels were also introduced on digital terrestrial television, with access to the catalogue being limited to those within the company. The content consists of all aired material, including that to which Rai Teche does not have the rights. In February 2014, Rai’s board of directors authorised high-quality digitisation of the historical ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vogue España
''Vogue'' (stylized in all caps), also known as American ''Vogue'', is a monthly Fashion journalism, fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and Fashion show#Catwalk, runway. It is part of the global collection of Condé Nast's VOGUE media. Headquartered at One World Trade Center in the FiDi, Financial District of Lower Manhattan, ''Vogue'' began in 1892 as a weekly newspaper before becoming a monthly magazine years later. Since its founding, ''Vogue'' has featured numerous actors, musicians, models, athletes, and other prominent celebrities. British Vogue, British ''Vogue'', launched in 1916, was the first international edition, while the Italian version ''Vogue Italia'' has been called the top fashion magazine in the world. As of March 2025, there are 28 international editions. Eleven of these editions are published by Condé Nast (British Vogue, ''British Vogue'', ''Vogue Arabia'', ''Vogue China'', ''Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Boncompagni
Giandomenico "Gianni" Boncompagni (13 May 1932 – 16 April 2017) was a television and radio presenter, director, writer and lyricist. Life and career Born in Arezzo, at 18 years old Boncompagni moved to Sweden, where he lived for ten years doing various jobs, graduating at the Swedish Academy of graphics and photography and starting a radio career as a disc jockey."Boncompagni, Gianni". ''Chi è. Mille nomi dell'Italia che conta''. Vol. I. L'Espresso, 1986. Married to a Swedish woman, after divorcing in the early 1960s he moved back to Italy with his three daughters, and together with Renzo Arbore he created the radio program ''Bandiera gialla'', the first Italian musical program focused on rock music and other avantgarde genres.Fabrizio Zampa. "Gianni Boncompagni". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. "Boncompagni, Gianni". ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . In 1970 the duo Arbore-Bonco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and '' ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The paper was designed by Reinhard Gade and Julio Alonso. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
