Mina il 25 March 1940 was born "La Voce". The largest. In Busto Arsizio (VA) a little girl is born, her name is Anna Maria Mazzini. When the girl was only three years old, her family moved to Cremona. After a few years the general public will learn to know her by the name of Mina, the "Tiger of Cremona".
The great Italian voices
Inside the Blog of Muse NewsIn section Music, you will find articles regarding some great Italian voices, as Fiorella Mannoia e Mia Martini. In these hypothetical podiums, however, the voice queen. And it belongs to you, Mina, which we will talk about from this moment.
Mina's career
The career of artists is usually made up of stages that indelibly mark their career. Mina's career, very long and full of satisfactions, is no exception. We will only highlight some dates among those that have marked the particularly important moments in his career.
1958. Mina's debut takes place in this year, when she becomes the female voice of the group Happy Boys.
1959. The song "Moon tan”Forcefully enters the charts of best-selling records.
1960. It is the year in which his name begins an unstoppable rise. In Sanremo he knows Gino Paoli, Che offers her to sing a song she has just finished writing, "The sky in a room". Thanks to her splendid performance, Mina convinces even the most skeptical critics who considered her only a screamer. Instead, he has shown that he knows how to create intense musical atmospheres full of pathos. Thanks to Mina "The sky in a room" it is the first songwriter to have a great commercial success. In this period the nickname was born the "Tiger of Cremona".
The 60s and 70s
Mina is not only an extraordinary singer that the whole world is beginning to know and envy us. Television and cinema are other stages that she treads casually and professionally flawlessly, often accompanied by the introducers, the most important and fashionable actors of the moment, with whom she is always perfectly at ease. We remember, among the broadcasts that have seen her as protagonist,: "Very song","Studio One","Theater 10", With the famous song that was the theme song of the program:"Words words words".
1978. The year of farewells, both on television and in evenings with the public. For television he records the final theme song of the program "Milleluci"Where he re-presents his success"Again and again”With a video deemed too sensual by the RAI censorship. Live, in front of his audience for the last time, at the club of the debuts, or the "Bussola tomorrow”, Offers an extraordinary series of thrilling evenings.
Evenings characterized by the classic repertoire of Mina, capable of ranging, as only she can, from disco-music to blues, from songwriting to rock, up to the Neapolitan song. From these latest live performances, a double album entitled "Live 78". Then the final withdrawal. And the August 23th, 1978. Like his friend and colleague Lucio Battisti decides to retire from the stage. This is the historic date of his last performance in front of the public.
The 80s - 90s - 2000s and beyond
In the following decades, the releases of new records will follow, both as a soloist and in collaboration with his colleagues. The extraordinary nature of her voice leads her to sing any song to any genre it belongs to. As if it were a game that leads her to sing all the cantabile, as if it were a challenge with herself. Mina sang in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Japanese, in Milanese dialect, Neapolitan, Genoese, Romanesco.
Among the authors who have written songs for her are: Gino Paoli, John Meccia, Adriano Celentano, Umberto Bindi, Renato rascel, Dario Fo, michelangelo antonioni, Victor Caprioli, Lelio Luttazzi,Franco Caliphan, Ennio Morricone, Fabrizio De André, Lucio Battisti, Ivano Fossati, Sergio Endrigo,Paolo Conte, Riccardo Cocciante, Lucio Dalla, Maurizio Costanzo, Don Backy, Ricky Gianco, Pino Donaggio.
This and much, much, much more was, is and will be Anna Maria Mazzini, in art MINA.
Mina unattainable pop icon
The University of Turin dedicates an international conference to the great singer Thursday March 25 e Friday 26th March, on the university's web channels.
The conference will see the extraordinary participation, with pre-recorded interventions, of two prominent guests: Ivano Fossati, who agreed to tell about his work with Mina, and Massimiliano Pani, son of Mina and his main collaborator since the XNUMXs.
The goal is to show the richness and variety of possible ways of studying pop culture. Mina is a unique case study: for its history, for its "assenza”, The subject of various interventions, which also forces us to reflect on how stardom works in the contemporary media system. (HANDLE).
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