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Carrà, Raffaella

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Personal name headingCarrà, Raffaella
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Variant(s)Pelloni, Raffaella
Birth date1943-06-18
Death date2021-07-05
Place of birthBologna (Italy)
Place of deathRome (Italy)
Field of activitySinging Dancing Acting Television broadcasting
Profession or occupationSingers Dancers Actors Television personalities
Found inHer Forte, forte, forte [SR] p1976: label (Raffaella Carrà)
Grazie, Raffa! 2000: p. 9, etc. (Raffaella Carrà; Raffaella Pelloni, b. Bologna, 06-18-1943)
Washington post WWW site, viewed July 7, 2021 (in obituary dated July 6, 2021: Raffaella Carrà, an Italian singer, dancer and television personality who attained superstardom in her native country as well as in Spain and Latin America, died July 5 in Rome. She was 78. Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni was born in Bologna on June 18, 1943. Ms. Carrà acted in historical epics known as sword-and-sandal films before appearing in "Von Ryan's Express" (1965), a World War II prisoner of war drama with Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard. By then she had taken the stage name Carrà, from the futurist painter Carlo Carrà)