Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, better known as Raffaella Carrà or Raffaella Carra, was an Italian singer, dancer, television presenter, actress and model. Considered a pop culture icon in Europe and Latin America, between the 1970s and 1980s she became a pioneer of feminism and women's sexual freedom in the television and music industry, as well as an icon of the LGBT community and fashion and design.
Marco Mengoni is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of Italian talent show X Factor. Since that he has sold over 2.8 million records in Italy, peaking the Italian albums chart seven consecutive times and entering the Top 10 Italian Singles Chart fifteen times. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2013 and again in 2023, therefore representing Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in both years, respectively.
Jorge Blanco Güereña is a Mexican musician, singer, dancer and actor, best known for portraying Leon Vargas on the Disney Channel television series Violetta.
Raffaella Fico is an Italian showgirl, singer, and model.
X Factor is an Italian television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner receives a € 300,000 recording contract with Sony Music. The fifth season started on Sky Uno on 20 October 2011 and ended on 5 January 2012. It was the first season to be broadcast on a digital satellite television platform, after four seasons televised on state owned channel Rai 2. For the first time, the final was also broadcast in 3D.
Martina Stoessel, known professionally as Tini, is an Argentine singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and model. She began her career by appearing on the Argentine children's television series Patito Feo (2007). As a teenager, she rose to prominence for her lead role as Violetta Castillo in the Disney Channel Latin America original telenovela, Violetta (2012–2015), and reprised the character in the series' sequel film Tini: The Movie (2016).
Violetta is an Argentine telenovela filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and developed by Disney Channel Latin America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and production company Pol-ka, debuted in Argentina, Latin America and Italy on May 14, 2012.
Chiara Galiazzo is an Italian singer. She rose to fame in 2012, after winning the sixth season of the Italian talent show X Factor. Her debut single, titled "Due respiri" and co-written by Eros Ramazzotti, was released on 8 December 2012 and debuted atop the Italian Singles Chart. Chiara released her first studio album, Un posto nel mondo, which debuted at number 2 on the Italian Albums Chart, and spawned the singles "Il futuro che sarà", "Mille passi" and "Vieni con me". In November of the same year, Galiazzo featured on Mika's single "Stardust", which became a number-one hit in Italy.
Fabio Fazio is an Italian television presenter. After debuting in 1982, he presented many TV programs, including Quelli che... il Calcio, Vieni via con me and Quello che (non) ho. Since 2003, he presents the weekly talk show Che tempo che fa, which airs on Nove since October 2023 and was formerly broadcast by Rai 3. He presented the Sanremo Music Festival in 1999, 2000, 2013 and 2014.
The Voice of Italy is a reality singing competition and Italian version of the international syndication The Voice based on the reality singing competition launched in the Netherlands, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. The inaugural season was in 2013 with the first episode airing on Rai 2 on March 7, 2013, the series ended on June 7, 2019, after 6 seasons. The show was also broadcast via radio on Radio Rai and RTL 102.5. In the summer of 2020, Rai 1 announced a new version of the show, the format of The Voice Senior on air in autumn with Antonella Clerici as TV host.
Lodovica Comello is an Italian actress, television presenter, singer and dancer who gained international popularity for her role as "Francesca" in the Argentine Disney Channel series Violetta.
Violetta is the soundtrack album to the eponymous series.
Michele Bravi is an Italian pop singer, songwriter, and actor. He rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the Italian X Factor. His coronation song, "La vita e la felicità", was penned by Tiziano Ferro and reached the top spot of the Italian Singles Chart. Bravi's debut album, A passi piccoli, was released in June 2014.
Violetta Zironi is an Italian singer-songwriter and actress.
Soy Luna is an Mexican-Argentine telenovela produced by Disney Channel Latin America that aired from March 14, 2016 to August 17, 2018. The first episode of Soy Luna premiered with over 2.3 million views in Argentina alone. Developed by Disney Channel Latin America and produced by Disney Channel Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the series stars Karol Sevilla along with Ruggero Pasquarelli, Valentina Zenere and Michael Ronda. Soy Luna is the second original production of Disney Channel Latin America after Violetta. The supporting cast features Agustín Bernasconi, Malena Ratner, Katja Martínez, Jorge López, Ana Jara, Chiara Parravicini, Gastón Vietto, Lionel Ferro, Carolina Kopelioff, Lucila Gandolfo, Rodrigo Pedreira, Ana Carolina Valsagna, David Murí, Ezequiel Rodríguez and Caro Ibarra. Estela Ribeiro, Roberto Carnaghi, Giovanna Reynaud, Pasquale Di Nuzzo, Jandino, Victoria Suárez Battan and Joaquín Berthold joined the main cast in later seasons. Luz Cipriota, Diego Alcalá, Germán Tripel, Antonella Querzoli and Paula Kohan used to also star on the show, but their characters were written off, whilst Bernasconi and Ferro left the series during the final season.
María Candelaria "Cande" Molfese is an Argentine actress, singer and television host who gained global fame for her role in the Disney Channel Latin America television series Violetta.
The second season of the musical drama television series Soy Luna was ordered on June 7, 2016, and premiered on Disney Channel Latin America on April 17, 2017—previously scheduled for February 2017—and concluded on September 29, 2017. This season consists of 80 episodes just like the previous season. The Show was broadcast from Monday to Friday at 6:00pm Argentine time. Filming began in June 2016 and wrapped in February 2017. The official trailer dropped on December 31, 2016.
The first season of the musical drama television series Soy Luna premiered on Disney Channel Latin America on March 14, 2016, and concluded on May 6, 2016. This season consists of 80 episodes, divided in two parts of 40 episodes each. The show was broadcast from Monday to Friday at 6:00pm Argentine time.
The Quiero Volver Tour was the second headlining concert tour by Argentine singer and songwriter Tini, in support of her second studio album, Quiero Volver (2018), and later to promote her third studio album Tini Tini Tini (2020). It began on December 13, 2018, at the Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tour was projected to end on September 18, 2020, in Buenos Aires at the Movistar Arena, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was interrupted earlier on March 9, 2020, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
