Loretta Goggi
Loretta Goggi
29.09.1950 (73 years) (Roma)
Loretta Goggi (pronounced [loˈretta ˈɡɔddʒi] born 29 September 1950) is an Italian singer, actress, comedian and TV host. Goggi is also an acclaimed singer and her records have sometimes entered the Italian pop charts. She was the first runner-up at the 1981 Festival della canzone italiana with the song Maledetta Primavera, her most famous pop hit.Her sister, Daniela Goggi is an artist as well, with whom she co-founded the music disco act Hermanas Goggi, reaching success in the Latin markets toward the end of the 1970's.In 1973, she co-hosted a Tv show in England with Sammy Davis Jr and performed together with Alighiero Noschese on the Italian television program "Formula Due". In 2006, the American rapper T.I. samples the Goggi's song Molla tutto for his song Get It, contained in the album King, included in the soundtrack of the film Step Up. Goggi holds some records in the Italian television field, during her career she has ventured into numerous imitations of famous people, both male and female. Although other actresses such as Isabella Biagini had already proposed parodies of famous people on TV, Goggi is recognized as the first female impersonator on Italian television, as well as the first to have included elements of satire in the texts within the imitations, thus differentiating the imitation from the mere parody.She was the first woman to conduct a television quiz in Italy, first in the first edition of Fantastico in 1979, a very popular Saturday night show where she conducted a quiz consisting of four games focused on Italian songs of the previous 25 years, and subsequently with Loretta Goggi in quiz from 1983 to 1985. Although Mike Bongiorno, between 1979 and 1982 had already conducted some successful programs on Fininvest networks, Goggi is the first Rai star to leave the public company to work on Canale 5 (as well as the first woman): in 1981, in fact, led the first television variety of the newborn network, Hello Goggi.She was also the host of the Sanremo Festival in 1986.She has won four Telegatto in four different categories: best theme song, best quiz, best music transmission and best female personality of the year.