eurovision 1987
Raf
Raf represented Italy at Eurovision 1987 in Brussels with “Gente di mare”, finishing 3rd of 22.
- who
- Italian singer
- born
- 29 September 1959, Margherita di Savoia, Italy
- contest
- 1987
- best result
- 3rd, 1987
- music
- Italo disco
- active
- since 1983
- record labels
- Carrère
- sang for
- Italy
Biography
Raf is an Italian singer-songwriter who first became known in the early 1980s as a singer of Italo disco. With Umberto Tozzi, Raf sang “Gente di mare” in Brussels in 1987 and finished third.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Raf (singer)”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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1987 Brussels
“Gente di mare”
3rd of 22 Finished 3rd of 22, with 103 points.
- Billed as
- Umberto Tozzi and Raf
- With
- Umberto Tozzi
- Sung in
- Italian
- Written by
- Giancarlo Bigazzi, Raf Riefoli, Umberto Tozzi
- Conductor
- Gianfranco Lombardi
- Running order
- 7th of 22
- Age on the night
- 27
- Won that year
- Ireland: Johnny Logan, “Hold Me Now”
In our contest stories
What we wrote about Raf, year by year. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 1987 The result
Germany's Wind were second, as they had been two years earlier. Italy's Umberto Tozzi and Raf were third with "Gente di mare", and Yugoslavia fourth.
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