Sabrina Salerno: as sexy as in the 80s but with a fuller checking account

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One of the most crucial events in the recent history of Spain occurred on New Year's Eve in 1987 -and we could even argue that it was the definitive consolidation of the Transition-: Sabrina Salerno appeared in the TVE special after the chimes that gave way to 1988, and for about three seconds, while jumping to the rhythm of the song Boys, she exposed one of her generous breasts, which escaped from the light bra like a freshly caught eel in her hands.

Who is old enough to remember it, relates the event with an epic almost typical of Virgilio -or from a Forocoches post-, in the sense that this was the awakening, or conclusive proof, of many heterosexualities, that concept today almost as Threatened like the Iberian lynx and under the scrutiny magnifying glass of the Ministry of Equality. Sabrina, still a teenager and embodying in her Greco-Latin profile the mathematics of Fibonacci and an avatar of Aphrodite, had entered the European pop market as an exhalation that same year, with the publication of the single Boys (Summertime love) , and things were revolutionized not so much for the video clip, in which she was wearing a white bikini in a swimming pool typical of an August in Torremolinos, but for her appearances on television, with the very short shorts , the shrunken leather jacket, the fine cloth bodysuit and the wobble of its very Italian anatomy celebrating the last few minutes of glory in disco spaghetti fashion.

It had been discovered a year earlier by record producer Claudio Cecchetto, who was looking for a new sexy figure to follow in the footsteps of other ephemeral dance and hyper-commercial pop stars of the time - a new Spagna, a new Laura Brannigan - and she found herself with an effusive and fleshy young woman, a historical hinge between Sophia Loren and Monica Bellucci, who had been crowned in 1984 as Miss Lido and Miss Liguria. They recorded Sexy Girl , then Boys came, the round on European television, and then the runaway nipple. Sabrina thus went down in history.

The mythical story of the unruly bosom is not unique to Spanish television, however. In Italy, as far as is known, something similar happened to him in another playback for the RAI -although with fewer seconds of exposure, there was an almost subliminal act and on TVE three long seconds-, although it is true that it was in Spain where Sabrina exploited eagerly her sudden status as a sex symbol, reaching up to 12 Interviú covers, if the accounts don't fail. It was a time when international commercial pop was beginning a hypersexualization career for pre-made stars - that was when the first Kylie Minogue emerged in Australia, and also the fashion for ladies with wide upper girth, such as Samantha Fox , the former Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, and that hyperbolic Pole named Danuta Lato-, and like all fashions, it was soon worn out. Sabrina continued her career, but she no longer had a success as Boys .

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This March 15 he turns 52 and is still active. It is something that his fans and curious people already knew -he has performed several times in Spain, in remember parties of the 80s-, but that does not stop attracting attention because there are not many differences between the Sabrina of now and the one that devastated 19 years. He shows a sharper face, the result of different steps in the operating room, but he keeps fit - on his Instagram account he sometimes publishes videos practicing pole-dancing - and above all, he keeps the current account at full capacity . Contrary to what is sometimes explained, Sabrina was for a short time a great money-making machine, which devastated Germany, Austria, South America and, in recent years, also in Russia. He sold 25 million records and some crumbs fell from that great cake that he knew how to invest wisely. Currently she continues to release songs, but what she dedicates most to is the hotel business, thanks to the influence of her husband, also an entrepreneur Enrico Monti, whom she met in 1994 and with whom she has a son born in 2006, Luca Maria.

This year Sabrina has vindicated herself again in her own house, in Italy, at the San Remo festival held last February - barely, shortly before the country began to close due to the viral crisis. She played the hostess a bit more and falls down the stairs when a heel of her shoes gets stuck in the carpet (unlike Madonna, she kept her balance), and also kept alive the flame of the most ephemeral and explosive sex symbol of the decade from the 80s, still red hot after half a century of life.

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