Sono in tanti ad essere convinti, erroneamente, che la cantante di “Maracaibo” sia niente di meno che la mitica Raffa nazionale. Tuttavia, nonostante la vaga somiglianza dei due timbri vocali e le affinità del genere musicale ritmato e baraccone, la vera, unica, interprete di questo indimenticato motivetto estivo è una semi sconosciuta Lu Colombo, cantante attiva negli anni 80 rimasta nota unicamente per aver portato al successo questo popolarissimo brano. 
Lu (Luisa) Colombo ha registrato Maracaibo nel 1980: si tratta di una ballata d’amore e d’avventura che parla di Zazà, una ballerina cubana la cui occupazione come danzatrice in un locale (" Balla al Barracuda, sì ma balla nuda, Zazà!") è in verità un modo per sviare i sospetti dalla sua reale attività (“ Era una copertura, faceva traffico d’armi con cuba ”). Il testo racconta della tresca sentimentale della ragazza con Fidel Castro (il cui nome è stato camuffato in "Miguel" su pressione della casa discografica), e di quanto lei amasse, a causa dei tanti impegni di lui, trascorrere il tempo con un certo Pedro in cerca di fedifraghe consolations came to know of the betrayal, Miguel tries to kill her shooting, but the girl managed to escape by sea. A terrible storm, however ("force nine sea") is the cause of the disaster (" the broken tree") and a menacing shark (" a black tip, dark night in ") and bit while the wounds try to save (" a white tusk, like the moon ). After this disastrous adventure the protagonist renounces arms trafficking and dance naked ("Barracuda finished, finished to dance naked") and build a second life by opening a brothel (" a large living room, 23 mulatto, house pleasure for foreigners ") of which she is the" Queen wonderful. "But because of the excesses of a dissolute life (" rum and cocaine ) Zazà fat until you reach the weight of 130 pounds. The song ends by saying that " if you are polite you will see in the dark skin and a white tusk, like the moon " clear recollection of the sinking and shark-human encounter with the predator. 
Trivia:
- The singer pronounces the name of the city Maracaibo with the accent on "i", but in fact the correct way to pronounce it with emphasis on the "a" of the diphthong Maracaibo.
- The tape has depopulated since its launch in all the clubs and its success continues today, almost 30 years after his debut album.
- The arrangements in Maracaibo are Mario Saroglia for Music production.
- Lu Colombo in 1983 became part of the label EMI and wrote Dance All Nite with which he took part in the Fesivalbar, then winning the Disco for the summer that year. In 1985 a new participation in the Festivalbar, this time in the role of host, and the victory at the Festival of Saint Vincent with the unpronounceable Rimini Ouagadougou .
- In 2001, Lu has produced a CD by Title Maracaibo 20th Anniversary Distribution for Self, but the most popular version of the song remains the original one of '81.
- At the 2007 Venice film festival, Maracaibo appeared as part of the soundtrack of the movie "The sweet and bitter .
Here the singer as it is today, along with Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet in the 80's at a concert in Modena last summer:
FORBIDDEN miss the live broadcast of Maracaibo in 2001 from the years 80 " Night Flight" presented by Loren Cuccarini: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrW0FikINbQ
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