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Mina
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mina Anna Mazzini, Mina Anna Maria Mazzini, Baby Gate, Pomodoro, Mina e la sua orchestra d'archi, Baby Gate (Mina), Mina Mazzini, Mina Anna Quaini
Italian singer (born 1940)
Film & TV
Busto Arsizio, Varese, Lombardy, Italy
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini OMRI (born 25 March 1940) is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress.
Known for
- 1960 — Self (archive footage)2010
- Passione — Herself2010
- Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada — Self2008
- Mina in Barilla commercials2001
- Mina in Studio2001
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975
- Mina - Live Dalla Bussola — herself1972
- Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye — se stessa1967
- Per amore... per magia... — Aichesiade1967
- Der goldene Schuß — Self1964
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1940
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 419,391
- Total plays
- 7,294,513
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There are at least 14 artists named Mina: 1. Mina, stage name of Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (March 25, 1940, Busto Arsizio, Province of Varese), is an Italian singer. She lives in Switzerland. Although born in a small town of Lombardy, she grew up in Cremona city: where her nickname of "Cremona Tiger" was given to her by her friend, the journalist Natalia Aspesi. She began her career singing pop songs with a "jazzy" feel in the late 1950s. Her first stage name used to be Baby Gate. <a href="https
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Key facts
- Born
- Mina Anna Mazzini , ( 1940-03-25 ) 25 March 1940 (age 86) , Busto Arsizio , Kingdom of Italy
- Other name
- Mina Anna Quaini
- Citizenship
- Italy Switzerland
- Occupations
- Singer actress television presenter
- Spouses
- Virgilio Crocco ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 ; died 1973 ) Eugenio Quaini ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Partners
- Corrado Pani (1962–1965) Augusto Martelli ( c. 1965–1970 )
- Children
- 2, including Massimiliano Pani
- Also known as
- "The Tigress of Cremona" Baby Gate "the Queen of Screamers"
- Origin
- Cremona , Italy
- Genres
- Pop blues jazz swing rhythm and blues rock and roll canzone napoletana bossa nova dance
- Works
- Albums singles
- Years active
- 1958–present
- Labels
- Italdisc Ri-Fi PDU EMI Warner
- Website
- minamazzini .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Busto Arsizio
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Italian
- Participant in
- Sanremo Music Festival 1961
- Genre
- disco
- Instrument
- voice
- Discography
- Mina discography
- Official website
- mina.music
- Image
- Mina Mazzini 1960s3.jpg
- Work location
- Lugano
- Voice type
- soprano
Show 14 more facts
- date of birth
- 1940-03-25
- topic's main category
- Category:Mina (Italian singer)
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- Mina (vocalist)
- pseudonym
- La tigre di Cremona
- birth name
- Anna Maria Mazzini
- married name
- Anna Maria Quaini
- topic has template
- Template:Mina
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- copyright representative
- SIAE
- different from
- Mina
- has characteristic
- mononym
- social media followers
- 380000
- partner in business or sport
- Adriano Celentano
- web feed URL
- mina.music/feed
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Encyclopedic overview
Mina Anna Mazzini (by marriage Quaini on the Swiss civil registry; born 25 March 1940), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop and rock and roll music from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.
In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her one of the most versatile pop singers in Italian music. With over 150 million records sold worldwide, she is the best-selling Italian musical artist as well as one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Mina dominated the country's charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italian charts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.