Just realized: March 25, singers day

[loulou]

While we are sorry because a gret talent and enegy isn't alive anymore, exactly two years before her, another singer with pipes and pre-natal knowledge of music was born.

She was a singer, a tv hoster, a radio hoster, an actress (she turned down Fellini multiple times), and a journaist. All in a span of twenty years, which is all she granted to our world, before she retired to private life, and never appeared again, and never spoke again, and never she was interviewed again.

She continued to release albums, sang about 1500 songs, and worked as a journalist, but all on her terms. No explanation was ever confermed or denied.


That's a presentation, my guess is the pece was put ogether in 2001, after she released a DVD of her in the studio, it was seen in NY. At 16:50 the piano bit is my favourite bit.

This recording is soothing to me.

This song was recoded in one take, in half a hour. It was meant to be the main title theme of a tv show, but was banned by censorship after the second episode. Unfortunately, this upload is heavily cropped, but one can guess why it was censored anyway. Silly. I think this song is very much her: with elegance, she went for blood in life. Love, Children. Men. Had I have to guess, she went without just around labours. I say this as a compliment.


Will people give their five cents and tell me what they think of this singer?
Do you know or think she and Aretha knew each other, spoke, met?

I know Mina must have loved Aretha.

 

[loulou]

Oh, if they say "the best italian singer". That would trump both Pavarotti and Bocelli.

 

[loulou]

Please, please, piece of minds? I have exhausted my time to research. Would reallly appreciate the contribute of this forum.

What they said about her:

Liza Minnelli: Mina is to singing what Deniro is to acting, she is simply the best.

Sara Vaughan, 1968, If I didn't have my own voice, I'd like to have the voice of a young Italian singer named Mina.

Louis Arstrong, 1968: Mina is the best white voice in the world.

Natalia Aspesi, journalist: Mina was "only" the best white voice in the world because she never had a repertoire up to her skills - (I agree with the second part of the statement).

Mick Jagger, 2002: Mina stayed young because she never compromsed her art, she has the voice of an angel.

Elvis Costello 2002: Mina is the greatest Italian singer, and I don't know how I relaized it just now by chance. She reminds me of of Dusty Springfield. I was struck and went buy all her albums.
-- The song I linked is in very poor quality, but quite special. Lyrics jot down in two hours by a fat journalist, in a FIAT 500 parked somewhere in Rome, in a summer night, after the company of a couple of whores and a few bottles of wine. Music by Ennio Morricone. Voice by Mina. Oh the chances!

Andy Warhol, 1972: Mina was a born actress, a ghost from the moon, aggressive and a little bit pop. - He probably was on crack, uh?

Johnny Marr (former Smiths), 2011: I was watching a BBC documentary on Annio Morricone, and I heard a voice, a song. I looked it up and it was Mina singing Se Telefonando. I was amazed. That's Morricone condensed in three minutes. Mina is a rebel, kinda like Lesley Gore. The boldness of the song equals the talents and the personalities that made it.

Celion Dion, 2010: Pavarotti always talked to me about Mina. I too was born in March. Her voice is an immense gift of nature. I and Pavarotti sang together the english version of Grande Grande Grande. - Maybe better version.

Gilbert Becaud, 1966: Mina, you have only one fault: you were born in Italy. If you were French, you'd be a national monument. Like Piaf, Brigitte Bardot, or Moreau. And the people, the journalists, the photographers, would bow and thank. They would know you gift an escape from reality, with your voice and your undeniable charm. Instead Italians, you know this too, the better you are, the more they'll try to destroy you, go figure.

Roberto Benigni: now only Mina and Bin Laden send pre-recorded video messsages when they want to say something.

Frank Sinatra: he offered multiple times any amount of money to have Mina on his stage, even just once. She always turbed him down.

Fellini: at his peak, he was determined to make a movie star of Mina. She turned him down too, almost unreachable, for more than a decade.

Mina Mazzini herself, as a journalist, 2010: to the fans that don't understand her choice to fall off the radar, and keep asking her image back, she said "have you ever tried to recover from your own autopsy?". Then warned about the culture of getting into the affairs of others and condemning their choices.