Lorella Cuccarini
Lorella Cuccarini ( born August 10, 1965 in Rome) is an Italian television presenter, dancer, singer and actress.
Life
Beginnings as a showgirl and singer
After visiting their first dance classes at the age of nine, she years later made their beginnings in show business as a dancer in a dance group that occurred among others in television shows such as Beppe Grillo's " Te lo do io il Brasile " or Pippo Franco " Tastomatto ". During a promotional Convention for the brand of ice cream Algida in February 1985, where she performed as a dancer, she was discovered by Pippo Baudo, who hired her as a showgirl in the Italian state television RAI for his show " Fantastico 6" on Rai Uno in the sequence. Her performances earned her huge popularity. With the musical intro for "Fantastico 6", " Sugar Sugar", Lorella Cuccarini succeeded also equal to the entry into the music charts and pushed down to 5th place before.
In 1986, she was confirmed at the side of Pippo Baudo and Alessandra Martines for " Fantastico 7". The seventh edition of Fantastico was with peaks of over 15 million viewers for the most watched television show of the year. As in the previous edition, she sang the musical intro of the show. The song " Tutto matto " proved to be with 6th place in the charts again as a success and was subsequently in a modified version for the advertising campaign of the kitchen manufacturer Scavolini, the subsequent 17 years was for the Lorella Cuccarini as a promotional ambassador under contract used. The sung together with Alessandra Martines outro song " L' Amore è " reached number 12 on the charts.
In the fall of 1987 she moved to the private competitor Mediaset, then still Fininivest. There she hosted along with Pippo Baudo, who also went over to Mediaset, a musical entertainment show and again sang their musical intro and outro. The intro song " Io BALLERO " was awarded 3rd place as the best chart placement again a success. In 1988 she was a member of the moderation team of entertainment and satirical program " Odiens " of the program author Antonio Ricci on Canale 5 your intro song " La notte vola " reached number 7 in the charts. With the program " Odiens " Lorella Cuccarini managed the leap from showgirl to presenter.
Presenter and actress
Her professional career experienced from 1990 with the pilot edition of realized by Antonio Ricci entertainment show " Paperissima " on Canale 5 is another success thrust. The first season of " Paperissima " was up to around 12 million viewers, the most watched show of the season and became one of the most durable programs on Italian television. Overall, Lorella Cuccarini moderated thereafter, initially together with Ezio Greggio and then with Marco Columbro, from 1990 to 2001, six of the first seven seasons. In the meantime, she hosted from 1991 to 1993 along with Marco Columbro and 1995/1996 together with Amadeus and Claudio Lippi three seasons of the Sunday afternoon program "Buona Domenica " on Canale 5 and other entertainment programs and TV galas. In February 1993, she co- hosted by Pippo Baudo also led the 43rd edition of the Sanremo Festival. In addition, it was 1993, a co-founder of the nonprofit children's aid movement " Trenta ore per la vita ", which includes an annual television gala as fundraiser.
In addition to her television career, she pursued her career further as a singer and as an actress debuted in 1992 with a supporting role in the TV movie " Piazza di Spagna ". With her first solo CD " Voci " she reached in 1993 with 100,000 CDs sold platinum status. Two years later, she took part as a singer with the song "Un altro amore no" at the Sanremo Festival and published with " Voglia di fare" her second solo CD. In 1997, she began with the musical " Grease" and a theater career and thus experienced another success with the public. The musical was performed a total of 320 times in Italy until 1999 and had approximately 400,000 visitors.
2002 Lorella Cuccarini returned to RAI, where they bet on Rai Uno, together with Gianni Morandi and Paola Cortellesi the Saturday night show "Uno di noi" and 2003 along with Marco Columbro " Scommettiamo che ...? ", An Italian variation of " that ..? " moderated. In terms of acting, she played for RAI in 2004 one of the main roles in the four-part TV movie " Amiche " and 2005/2006 in the six-part TV movie " Lo zio d' America 2 ". However, the return to RAI proved disappointing and after the deposition of "che Scommettiamo ...? " Without his own show for Lorella Cuccarini. Finally, she left in 2007 the state broadcaster and returned briefly to Mediaset. In the meantime, she brought in 2006 the musical " Sweet Charity " on the stage, and thus went on tour until March 2007.
After she had in 2006 and 2007 several guest appearances on television, she returned in 2008 on Canale 5 with the show " La sai l' ultima? " At the side of Massimo Boldi as a presenter back. The program, which already aired between 1992 and 2002 and their production was resumed in 2008 was, however, discontinued after only four shows. After that followed various individual performances on the Mediaset networks, before she moved in early 2009 to Rupert Murdoch's pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia, where the casting show " Vuoi ballare con me? " Than Italian version of " Your Mama Do not Dance? " moderated. In early 2010, she returned in addition to the musical version of the film Forbidden Planet, to the stage.
Awards
During her career, Lorella Cuccarini 1987-2001 a total of twelve times was awarded the Television Award Telegatto.
Private
Lorella Cuccarini is married and the mother of four children.