With the release of the album, and the singles "Vamos a la playa" and "No tengo dinero", Righeira established their reputation as a modern dance duo.

The duo's second album, Bambini Forever (1986), earned less success in public when it was released but included songs as "Italians a Go-Go", "Oasi in città" and "Innamoratissimo", with which they performed at the Sanremo Music Festival in 1986.

[citation needed] Righeira have released four studio albums along with several singles throughout their career, selling millions of records worldwide.

[9][10] Some of the earliest versions of "Vamos a la playa" tracks back to 1981, when Righi and some acquaintances paid visit to a mutual friend's music studio in Florence during New Year's Eve.

The major project began in early 1981 and was completed before Righi and Rota left for military service, only to be edited and released later in the spring.

With the song gaining its popularity in public, both were allowed by the command to leave the barracks in order to appear on television performances under several occasions.

[13] That same year, when Rota auditioned, he sang both "Vamos a la playa" and an Italian version of the West German electropunk band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft's song "Der Mussolini", called "Balla Marinetti", while he was partially known under the pseudonym of "Italo Monitor".

The duo's debut album, Righeira, released in 1983, featured a futuristic and modern sound with lyrics about nuclear annihilation.

Recalling how "on Righeira, gone were the themes of love, sex, or stuff of that nature, in (surprisingly) was Stefano Righi singing about nuclear annihilation, government surveillance, and crippling hypermodernism", author Diego Olivas wrote: "On tracks like "Jazz Musik", "Gli parlerò di te", and "Kon Tiki" you get the sense that all the crew involved really took umbrage to decadent Italy, there outré culture was selling, and they themselves didn’t feel privy to.

From the album cover to the stilted music, which forced you to contort yourselves to a different kind of groove, everything on Righeira sounded "off" in the most unpretentious, yet surgically designed way they could.

The song "Luciano Serra pilota", which was included on the A-side of the Righeira album, was not released as a single but still achieved good success in Italy.

In the animated music video, Righi and Rota are seen dancing and singing, while they stand and sit on a biplane, dressed in pilot uniforms.

[24] With the same song, Righeira participated in the Un disco per l'estate summer festival and also managed to win the Festivalbar singing competition the same year.

[27] In 1985, Rota starred in the Italian television variety show Drive In, which aired on the Italia 1 channel, where he performed a sketch together with actor and comedian Enrico Beruschi.

The song was quickly noticed by critics, and made them finish in fifteenth place out of twenty-two participating contestants after the final voting.

According to Carmelo La Bionda, they "wanted to record another album, but we decided to quit the adventure because we thought that the two singers had in mind to produce themselves".

It was co-written together with La Bionda and the singer Raffaella Riva from the Italian Italo disco band Gruppo Italiano.

Gruppo Italiano made several collaborations with Righeira during their career and also recorded their own version of the duo's hit from 1985, "L'estate sta finendo", on their cover album Surf in Italy.

"[35] In the mid-1990s, Rota gave life to a new project called Gloria Mundi together with songwriters and musicians Franco Battiato and Giusto Pio, which would last until Righeira released their fourth studio album.

Directed by Alessandro Castelletto, it chronicled Righeira's career from the early 1980s to 2007, from their breakthrough in music to their final studio album release in 2007.

[37] On 13 June 2011, the Italian rock Subsonica released the single "La funzione", in which Righeira was credited after collaborating with the band.

[40] Righi re-released "Vamos a la playa" in a brand new electro-kraut rock version remixed by musician and record producer Gaudi on 23 July 2021, marking the 40th anniversary of its release.

[44] Interviewed by James Arena for the book Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop: 32 International Music Legends Discuss Their Careers, Carmelo La Bionda recalls on working with Righeira: I think my brother and I knew exactly what was necessary to make their songs hits.

[16]Righeira were well-liked by younger audiences for their flamboyant appearances, in addition to their singles; they used to wear fake mustaches in the likeness of Charlie Chaplin in the early stages of their careers.