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Also known as Domenica Bertè, Mimì Bertè

Italian singer (1947–1995)

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Acting · Bagnara, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Mia Martini (born Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè; 20 September 1947 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance. Her debut album, Oltre la collina with the song "Padre davvero" is regarded as one of…

Known for

  • Mia Martini - Fammi sentire bella2020
  • TV Story Superstar — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Mia Martini - I Am Mia — Herself (old footage)2019
  • The Sanremo Case — Self1990
  • Stryx1978
  • Music & Guests — Self1976
  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975
  • Eurovision Song Contest — Self1956

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
Italy
Active from
1947
Active to
1995

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
85,362
Total plays
880,694

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Mia Martini (September 20, 1947 - May 12, 1995), pseudonym of Domenica Bertè, was a popular and critically acclaimed Italian singer. Mia was born in 1947 in Bagnara Calabra (province of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy), but soon she moved to Rome with her sister (Loredana Bertè) and her friend Renato Zero. Both of them would eventually become successful singers too. She recorded her first records as Mimì Bertè, but she soon decided to change her name to the more appealing Mia Martini. <a href=

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Key facts

Also known as
Mimì Bertè
Born
Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè , ( 1947-09-20 ) 20 September 1947, Bagnara Calabra , Calabria, Italy
Origin
Porto Recanati , Marche, Italy
Died
12 May 1995 (1995-05-12) (aged 47), Cardano al Campo , Lombardy, Italy
Genres
Pop blues jazz pop rock canzone napoletana folk music
Occupations
Singer-songwriter musician
Years active
1963–1983, 1989–1995

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Encyclopedic overview

Domenica Rita Adriana "Mimì" Bertè ( Italian pronunciation: [doˈmeːnika (miˈmi b)berˈtɛ]; 20 September 1947 – 12 May 1995), known professionally as Mia Martini (pronounced [ˈmiːa marˈtiːni]), was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.

Her debut album, Oltre la collina with the song "Padre davvero" is regarded as one of the best Italian albums made by a female artist. Hit songs like "Piccolo uomo", "Donna sola", "Minuetto", "Inno", "Al mondo", "Che vuoi che sia se t'ho aspettato tanto", "Per amarti" and "La costruzione di un amore" made her one of the most popular artists of Italian music in the 1970s, both nationally and internationally. She is the only female artist to have won two Festivalbar consecutively, respectively in 1972 and in 1973. In 1977, two important encounters occurred in Martini's life: the first with Charles Aznavour, with whom she began a musical collaboration, and the second with singer-songwriter Ivano Fossati, with whom she started an artistic and sentimental partnership.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mia Martini” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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