

In 1972 she performed in "Ciao Rudy" and "Orfeo 9". While Martini would consequently start a successful music career, recording songs like " Piccolo Uomo" and " Minuetto", Loredana continued to pursue theatre. In 1970 Loredana and her sister Domenica, who had by then changed her name to Mia Martini, performed as backing vocalists for Chico Buarque de Holanda. In 1969 both Bertè, Zero and Teo Teocoli starred in the Italian edition of the musical " Hair". She later joined the dance troupe of the Piper Club in Rome, where she met Renato Zero. In the early 1970s she performed as a go-go dancer in television and radio shows such as "Bandiera Gialla" and "Stasera Rita!". After her parents separated, Bertè moved with her mother to Rome where she attended the local Art Institute. Loredana spent her childhood in Porto Recanati and then in Ancona. Her parents, Giuseppe Radames Bertè and Maria Salvina Dato, were both school teachers.

Bertè was born in Bagnara Calabra, Province of Reggio Calabria, in Southern Italy on September 20 as the third of four daughters, three years after her sister Domenica.
