Farewell to Raffaella Carrà, queen of Italian TV.
She was 78 years old.
The great television artist, she died today after an illness.
05 July 2021 Raffaella Carrà, defined as the Queen of Italian TV, died at the age of 78. Showgirl, singer, dancer, actress, television host, radio and television author. "Raffaella has left us. She has gone to a better world, where her humanity, her unmistakable laugh and her extraordinary talent will shine forever." With these words Sergio Japino gives the sad announcement joining the pain of the adored nephews Federica and Matteo, of Barbara, Paola and Claudia Boncompagni, of lifelong friends and closest collaborators. During her long career Raffaella Carrà has become an icon of Italian music and television, finding great acclaim abroad, especially in Spain. "Raffaella Carrà died at 16.20 today, after an illness that for some time had attacked that body of her so tiny and yet so full of overflowing energy", reads a statement released by the agencies. "Hers is an unstoppable force, which has imposed her at the top of the world star system, an iron will that has never abandoned her until the end, making sure that nothing of her deep suffering leaked out. The umpteenth gesture of d ' love for her audience and for those who shared her affection, so that her personal ordeal would not disturb the bright memory of her ". "A woman out of the ordinary yet endowed with surprising simplicity, she had not had children but children - she always said - she had thousands of them, like the 150 thousand made to adopt remotely thanks to" Amore ", the program that most of all had remained. in the heart". The funeral will be defined shortly. "In her latest dispositions - the note continues - Raffaella asked for a simple coffin of raw wood and an urn to contain her ashes. In the saddest hour, always unique and inimitable, like her overwhelming laugh. so that we all want to remember it.

