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Also 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)

OverviewAI-generated

Mina, born Anna Maria Mazzini on March 25, 1940, in Busto Arsizio, is an Italian-Swiss singer, film actor, jazz musician, and television presenter. She began her professional career in 1958 and has performed in genres including popular music, rock and roll, pop music, and jazz. Her work locations have included Lugano, and she has been associated with record labels Ri-Fi and Sony Music.

Known by pseudonyms such as Baby Gate, Mina Mazzini, and Pomodoro, she has also used the married name Anna Maria Quaini. Her personal life includes partnerships with Corrado Pani and Augusto Martelli, and she is the parent of Massimiliano Pani. Mina’s musical output is represented by SIAE, and she maintains an official website.

Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
21 August 1966
Works
53

Top works

  • The Good Liar
  • The red right hand
  • Bloody Scotland
  • Like a Charm
  • The girl with the dragon tattoo

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Film & TV

Acting · 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

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Italy
Active from
1940
aln-shamor miobluesbossa novacanción melódicachanson

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
419,391
Total plays
7,294,513

Tags

italianpopfemale vocalistsitalianajazz

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

via Last.fm · Mina

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

via Wikipedia infobox

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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.

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