27 Facts About Loretta Goggi

Loretta Goggi was the first runner-up at the 1981 Sanremo Festival with the song "Maledetta primavera", her most famous pop hit.

Loretta Goggi co-founded the disco act Hermanas Goggi with her sister Daniela Goggi, who is an artist.

Loretta Goggi's imitations were notable for their inclusion of satirical elements in the texts, thereby elevating the quality of her performances beyond mere parody.

Loretta Goggi has won four Telegattos in four different categories: best theme song, best quiz, best music transmission and best female personality of the year.

From a very young age Loretta Goggi studied singing and music.

In 1968 she ventured for the first time with an adult role, taking part as the female protagonist of the play La freccia nera directed by Anton Giulio Majano and based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which she is flanked by Aldo Reggiani, Arnoldo Foa and Adalberto Maria Merli; the drama was successful, and Loretta Goggi reached great fame.

Loretta Goggi played many photo novels in which she is flanked by Massimo Ranieri, Christian, Aldo Reggiani and Ben Elkland.

Loretta Goggi returned to singing, publishing several singles with the Durium Records record label, including Cibu Ciba written by Paolo Limiti.

Loretta Goggi was then alongside Pippo Baudo in the radio program Caccia alla voce, in which she replaced the actor Franco Rosi because he is sick, beginning to perform as an imitator, surprisingly enjoying great success, so much so that the conductor wants her with him in the television variety La freccia d'oro.

In 1974 Loretta Goggi realized her first live solo show at Bussola, Sergio Bernardini's Versilia club and in the same year published four singles produced by her manager Enrico Polito and Toto Savio, the latter then becoming Loretta Goggi's musical author until 1985.

Immediately after the end of the program, Loretta Goggi began a long summer tour.

Once the contract with the producer and manager Polito expired, Loretta Goggi started her own business with her sister Daniela for an artistic duo.

Later the couple Loretta Goggi resumed the tour in the rest of Europe.

In 1980 Loretta published the summer single Notti d'agosto, written for her by her dear friend Franco Califano and embarked on a new international tour with her sister Daniela entitled Supergoggi which goes up to the countries of Latin America.

The album containing Maledetta primavera, entitled Il mio prossimo amore, was released in the autumn of the same year, on the occasion of the TV show Hello Goggi, an early evening variety totally focused on Loretta and her imitations, which marks her passage from Rai to the then newborn Canale 5.

In 1981 Loretta Goggi was a protagonist in the theater, alongside Gigi Proietti, of the Italian edition of the They're Playing Our Song musical.

Two other songs by Loretta Goggi are chosen as the final theme of the two seasons of the program: in the first Una notte cosi, and in the second Notte all'opera.

In 1984 she recorded the song Un amore grande, written by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi and programmed to go to the competition at the Sanremo Festival, but Loretta Goggi gave up at the last moment her participation communicating that with an ANSA press release.

Loretta Goggi returned to Sanremo in 1986, this time however as host of the 36th edition of the Festival: Goggi is the first woman to lead the event as the main presenter, achieving great success in terms of audience.

Loretta Goggi had won the second edition of 1996 as a competitor.

In 1999, Loretta Goggi was the protagonist of Canale 5 prime time television show Innamorati pazzi, broadcast on Valentine's Day.

In 2000 the Auguri Loretta Goggi program was aired in two episodes on Rete 4 to celebrate her fifty birthday; the program is a collage of various clips that contains the best performances on Loretta Goggi's Mediaset networks.

Loretta Goggi returned to engage in dubbing with the animated film Monsters, Inc.

Loretta Goggi played in Maledetta Primavera Show, directed by Fabrizio Angelini, a show represented throughout 2003 at the Colosseum Theater in Rome.

On 26 April 2008 Loretta Goggi married her partner Gianni Brezza in Orbetello, in Tuscany.

On 4 April 2019 the short film Sogni was presented, written and directed by Angelo Longoni, in which Loretta Goggi is the protagonist, and where she returns to work in pairs with her sister Daniela.

Loretta Goggi is a writer in the book Un mondo per tutti, published by Il Castoro, a collection of nine short stories for children written in support of AMREF.