Raffaella Carrà was the last pop icon of Italian music More of a cultural pioneer than a mere entertainer

Raffaella Carrà was part of everyone's life: those who were young when there were still black and white TV and Canzonissima '70 will remember her in a miniskirt, to scandalize our grandmothers; those who grew up between the 80s and 90s will remember her as the ever elegant television personality, with an immutable smooth and blonde fringe, decidedly more mature but already consecrated in the pantheon of Italian pop culture. From the early 2000s onwards her presence became more rarefied but also more pervasive: his songs were already filtered so deep into the classical repertoire of Italian music that they had become a multi-generational classic known by practically everyone, a must of the most nostalgic playlists inside and outside the discos where songs such as Ballo Ballo, Tuca Tuca and Taanti Auguri still survive today. 

What is most surprising, considering her stellar career, is the way carrà has been able to play in and out of the box by rewriting every thinkable rule of entertaining, going from being a feminist pioneer and AN LGBT icon to the role of international pop star, then turning into the most famous face of Italian television with an immense series of TV programs conducted by her in the first person on which stands the sensational success of Carramba! and finally managing to break into the world of viral videos online, clubbing and cinema.