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Adriano Pappalardo
Adriano Pappalardo
Italian singer and actor
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Moreno
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Anna Oxa
Anna Oxa
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Dolcenera
Dolcenera
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Albano Carrisi
Albano Carrisi
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Anna Identici
Anna Identici
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Enrico Ruggeri
Enrico Ruggeri
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Giordana Angi
Giordana Angi
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Lorella Cuccarini
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Gianni Mazza
Gianni Mazza
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Raffaella Carrà
Raffaella Carrà
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Ivan Cattaneo
Ivan Cattaneo
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Flavia Fortunato
Flavia Fortunato
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Ermal Meta
Ermal Meta
Albanian-Italian singer-songwriter
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Marco Masini
Marco Masini
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Elettra Lamborghini
Elettra Lamborghini
Italian singer, model, television personality and influencer
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Umberto Smaila
Umberto Smaila
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Mina
Mina
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Irene Fargo
Irene Fargo
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The Kolors
The Kolors
Italian band
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Totò Savio
Totò Savio
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Romina Power
Romina Power
American singer and actress
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Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo
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Neffa
Neffa
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Mahmood
Mahmood
Italian singer
Maria Giovanna Elmi
Italian former television announcer, presenter, journalist, actress and singer

Maria Giovanna Elmi

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Italian former television announcer, presenter, journalist, actress and singer
Maria Giovanna Elmi in 1975

Maria Giovanna Elmi (born 25 August 1940) is an Italian former television announcer, presenter, journalist, actress and singer.

Born in Rome, Elmi attended the faculty of letter at the university, then in 1968 she was employed by RAI TV as an announcer. Her popularity raised in early seventies, when she hosted the children show Il dirigibile together with the singer Mal, playing the fairy Azzurrina, from which she inherited the nickname "fatina" (i.e. young fairy in Italian).

Elmi hosted two editions of the Sanremo Music Festival (in 1977 and 1978). She ranked at first place in two public polls of the most appreciated female television personalities in 1970 (Doxa) and in 1981 (Abacus).

In 1970 Elmi also became a journalist and publicist, collaborating for three years with the newspaper Il Messaggero and later with a large number of magazines and newspapers. In 2005 she took part to the reality show L'Isola dei Famosi, ranking third.