Madrid is to name a square after
Raffaella Carrà, the late Italian TV icon who was wildly popular
in Spain too, the El Diario website reported Thursday.
The initiative was proposed by the Más Madrid group "in order to
valorise the memory of this woman, singer, composer, presenter,
dancer, choreographer and icon of reference for all the
Madrileni and Madrilene and in particular for the LGTBI +
community".
Carrà died on July 5 at the age of 78.
The singer, actress, dancer and TV host, who starred with Frank
Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express in 1965 and found cult TV success
in Spain, Argentina and other countries, becoming a gay icon,
had been ill for some time.
Carrà is also credited with boosting the sexual revolution in
Catholic Italy with cheeky songs celebrating touching (Tuca
tuca, 1971) and getting women to take the initiative in
lovemaking (A fare l'amore comincia tu, 1976), and was slammed
by the Vatican for showing her belly button on live TV in 1970.
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