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Italian singer-songwriter (born 1959)

Musical artist

Raffaele Riefoli (born 29 September 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter who is better known as simply Raf.

Biography

Riefoli lived the few first years of the 1980s in London, before starting out his musical career in 1984, landing mostly in the new wave scene with his English language debut album, Raf.

His first single, "Self Control", which he co-wrote with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo, was a huge hit not only in his native Italy but also in Austria (No. 7), Switzerland (No. 1)^[1] and Germany, where the single climbed as high as No.

2 in the Media Control single chart and spent a total of seven weeks within the Top 10.^[2] Raf's version of the song also managed to enter the Top-40 in France.^[1]

"Self Control" was recorded and released contemporaneously by American pop star Laura Branigan, previously best known for the hit singles "Gloria" (another cover version o