MINA (SINGER)

'Anna Maria Mazzini' (born March 25, 1940), known as 'Mina', is a popular Italian singer, acclaimed for her enormous singing and performing talent. Called "The Tiger of Cremona", she was the star attraction of popular Italian television variety shows from the early sixties to the mid seventies. During those years, she dominated the Italian charts with songs penned by the nation's leading songwriters. In Italy her popularity reached levels that have almost never been surpassed.^[1] She retired to private life in 1978, giving up public appearances and continuing to release albums on a yearly basis.

Contents

Biography

Mina and Baby Gate

Queen of shriekers

''Il cielo in una stanza''

International success

Growing up

''Se telefonando''

Independence

Canzonissima '68

Teatro 10

Away from public

Discography

Albums in Italian charts

Singles in Italian charts

Selected duets

Filmography

Bibliography

References

External links

Biography

Anna Maria Mazzini was born to a solid working class family in Busto Arsizio, Province of Varese. As her family moved to Cremona to find a job, she grew up in the town.^[2] Anna Maria Mazzini was musically raised at the Santa Tecla and the Taverna Messicana clubs of Milan, known as the temples of Italian rock.^[3] After finishing high school in 1958, she intended to go to college to study book keeping.^[4]

Mina and Baby Gate

While on summer holiday in 8 August, 1958, in Versilia, she gave an improvised performance to amuse her family. The occasion was after a concert by Don Marino Barreto Jr. at "La Bussola", a famous night club in Marina di Pietrasanta.^[1] The song she performed was the pop hit "Un'anima tra le mani". In September her book keeper studies were disturbed by joining the band Happy Boys, and dedicating herself to American rock'n'roll and jazz.^[4] Her first concert in September 1958, before an audience of 2,500 people at Rivarolo del Re Theatre, Cremona, was described as "magnificent, unforgettable" by the local press.^[7] Davide Matalon, the owner of the small record company Italdisc, was invited to listen to Mina, and offered her a contract.^[8] The first single "Non partir"/"Malattia" was produced under the stage name "Mina" for Italian audience. Simultaneously "Be Bop A Lula"/"When" was issued under the name "Baby Gate" for international audience.^[9] In December 1958 she appeared again before a grand audience at the "Sei giorni della canzone" festival in Milan.^[10]

Queen of shriekers

Mina's carieer took off with recording an upsetting rock'n'roll version of "Nessuno", a well-known Betty Curtis's swing song, and performing it at the first ''Festival rock'' in Milan Ice Palace, February 1959.^[11] On respectively March 1 and April 4, she was invited to perform the song in "Lascia o raddoppia?" and "Il musichiere" National TV pop quizzes. Edoardo Sanguineti, a professional critic, recalls her performance on TV as "a memorable experience" and "a revelation".^[11] Mario Riva, the host of the TV program, entitled her as a part of the unstoppable generation of the ''urlatori'' (shriekers).^[13][14] The starlet signed with Elio Gigante, an experienced artist manager. In following years he organized her performances in every grand ballroom in Italy.^[4] Chart success followed with "Tintarella di luna", a rock'n'roll song peaking at #1 of Italian charts. She performed the song in her first movie "Juke box - Urli d'amore".

''Il cielo in una stanza''

Her version of "Il cielo in una stanza", a famous song by Gino Paoli, was the first of many of Mina's metamorphoses, transforming her from a rock'n'roll shrieker to a muse of cantautori. This introduced the singer to a much more refined genre, that she thereafter never left.^[1] Topping the list of annual sales in Italy^[17] and reaching 1961 US Billboard Hot 100, her unsurpassed interpretation turned the song into a classic of Italian pop music.^[18] A video performance of the performance was included in "Io bacio... tu baci" and "Appuntamento a Ischia" movies. Later it was featured in "Goodfellas" movie. In 1958-1962 she starred in 17 movies, 10 of them as actor and 7 only as a performer. Unaffected by her lack of success in Sanremo Music Festival, her records kept selling, with up-tempo dance songs "Moliendo Cafe" and "Renato" hitting the Italian Top at, subsequently, #1 and #4.^[17]

International success

Mina gained wide popularity abroad, starting from her first years. She sung in English, French, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese and published records in most of the corresponding countries. In addition, her records were published in Greece and Soviet Union. She toured Yugoslavia and Tunisia. "Il cielo in una stanza", sung in the original Italian and titled "This World We Love In" for the U.S. market, charted for a week in the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. She had the singles "Heißer Sand" and "Fiesta Brasiliana" in German and Flemish charts, "Heißer Sand" at #1 in both of the charts.

Growing up

In 1963 Mina's TV and radio career for Italian Broadcasting Service was abruptly brought to an end, as she refused to hide her pregnancy and relationship with Corrado Pani, a married actor. Mina signed with Ri-Fi record label and manager Tonino Ascoldi. The song "È l'uomo per me" was the first success of the team, being the most sold single of 1964 in Italy.^[17] As her popularity was largely unscathed by the scandal, the Italian Broadcasting Service was forced to end the ban on Mina. The singer returned on 10 January 1964 in "La fiera dei sogni" TV program, with the serious "Città vuota".^[21] Her new sensual and melodic maner^[22] was demonstrated again in December 11, 1964 TV program "Il macchiettario", performing "Io sono quel che sono". Another grand occasion followed in 1965 with 12 Studio Uno evenings of musical variety. The series included sensual, morbid blues songs "Un bacio è troppo poco" and a "Un anno d'amore".^[23] She also performed "Brava", a rhythmic jazz number specially written by Bruno Canfora to demonstrate Mina's vocal range and skills.^[4] Her Studio Uno album topped the Italian album chart of the year. Mina signed a contract with the Barilla pasta label, starring in ten pasta commercials until 1971. In 2005 the best of Mina's performances, advertising the Barilla products were published on VHS and DVD as "Nei caroselli Barilla". In 1965 her brother Alfredo died in a car accident.

''Se telefonando''

In Spring 1966, Maurizio Costanzo and Ghigo De Chiara, the authors of the "Aria condizionata" TV show, wrote the lyrics for "Se telefonando", a song they needed for the TV program. The famous serialist composer Ennio Morricone was asked to write and arrange the music, and Mina to sing. The encounter of Mina and the three authors took place around an upright pianoforte in a RAI rehearsal room at Via Teulada, Rome. Morricone started to repeat a short musical theme or by his words a "micro-cell"^[25] of just three notes, that he had caught from the siren of a police car in Marseilles. After a few beats Mina grabbed the sheet with the lyrics and started to sing, as if she had known the tune before. The result was a pop song with an unusual vocal range and numerous transitions of tonality, handled flawlessly by Mina.^[26] "Se telefonando" was presented in May 1966 in one of the "Studio Uno" TV shows, and in August the same year on "Aria condizionata". The single's chart success was modest in Mina's terms, peaking at #7 of Italian charts. However, the "Studio Uno 66" album, featuring the song as one of the standout tracks among "Ta-ra-ta-ta" and "Una casa in cima al mondo", was the 5th most sold album in Italy in 1966.^[27] "Se telefonando" was included in "I'm Not Scared" movie soundtrack. Another song, specially written for Mina and a TV program in 1966, was "Tu sei un uomo", performed at the Christmas show "Veglia di Natale".^[28]

Independence

In 1966, Mina and her father moved to live in Lugano. They started to co-operate with the Swiss Broadcasting Service In Italian Language and founded PDU, their independent record label. The first record under the label was "Dedicato a mio padre". Mina's growing interest in Brasilian music resulted in "La banda", a Chico Buarque cover, reaching #3. Mina continued to perform on Italian TV, singing "Zum zum zum", a #1 hit in ''Sabato sera'' Spring 1967 series, accompanied by NATO naval band, and a duet with Adriano Celentano. The April 22, 1967 edition of "Sabato sera" presented the performance of "Addio", recorded at the Teatro Regio di Parma. The ''Senza rete'' show of 18 July 1968, presented Mina turning the Luigi Tenco's song "Se stasera sono qui" into a rigorous piece of soul music^[29] in the score of Pino Calvi.

Canzonissima '68

Despite the Italian "Hot autumn" of 1968, the ''Canzonissima'' grand variety nights from September 1968 to January 1969, hosted by Mina, Walter Chiari and Paolo Panelli, gathered unprecedented 20-22 million viewers. The fifteen Saturday nights presented Mina in her ultimate entertaining condition, accompanied by an orchestra of 400 people and a choir of 130.^[30] The series included several performances of the elegant "Un colpo al cuore" by Giancarlo Bigazzi and Mario Capuano, in Augusto Martelli's magnificent orchestration. Her talking and laughing version of "Sacumdi, sacumda", Carlos Imperial's bossa nova, was almost banned by RAI because of its unholy lyrics. The song was performed as a part of a musical fantasy, back to back with "Quelli che hanno un cuore", her most intense version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" in the orchestration of Bruno Canfora.^[31] Another masterpiece interpretation of a Dionne Warwick's hit was Mina's performance of "La voce del silenzio" ("Silent Voices"), especially written for Warwick by Paolo Limiti and Elio Isola.^[4] On 6 January Mina starred in eight sequences of the "Balli regionali" folklore ballet, each of them introducing a region of Italy. All of the variety nights were closed by Mina singing "Vorrei che fosse amore", a beautiful piece of atmospheric music scored by Bruno Canfora.^[31]
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of her carieer, she returned to "La Bussola" in 1968, to give a concert and record her first live album "Mina alla Bussola dal vivo".^[34] Mina's first independent album to make it to weekly #1 of the charts, was "Bugiardo più che mai...più incosciente che mai..." in 1969. Cooperation with songwriting duo Battisti-Mogol produced sophisticated sensual hits like "Io e te da soli", presented in 1969 "La notte della speranza" Christmas TV program.^[35] In 1969-72 Mina produced 5 albums, each of them peaking at Italian Top #1 of at least a week and among the Top 7 of the year, albeit taking a break in live performances to give birth to her daughter.

Teatro 10

Mina's comeback took place at Italian Broadcasting Service's variety series "Teatro 10", Spring 1972. The shows included Gianni Ferri's rescore of "Se stasera sono qui", Mina's earlier hit song. "Balada para mi muerte", another special number on "Teatro 10" presented Mina taking a shot at nuevo tango, in duet with Ástor Piazzolla at the bandoneón. "Grande grande grande" was a particular success, being the second most sold album of the year in Italy. Covered by Shirley Bassey as "Never never never", the song had international success at the UK Top 10 and #1 of the Australian charts. The short intense collaboration with the Battisti-Mogol songwritng duo produced "Amor mio", "Io vivrò senza te" and "E penso a te". The songs were characterized by frequent changes of rhythm, pauses and dialogues between the voice and the orchestra. The musical handwriting of Lucio Battisti's production was quite shamelessly copied by Luigi Albertelli. His "Fiume azzurro" was however turned into an ultimate success by Mina's virtuous performance.^[36] The final number of all of the eight "Teatro 10" variety nights was "Parole parole", a duet with Alberto Lupo. The song was an easy listening dialogue of Mina's splendid singing with Lupo's declamation. The theme of the unusual song were hollow words. It intertwined Mina's lamentation of the end of love and the lies she had to hear, while Lupo simply spoke. She reacted and scoffed at the compliments that he gave her, calling them simply empty words - ''parole''. The single was released in April 1972 to become a top hit of Italian charts.^[37] After the "Teatro 10" series Mina declared withdrawal from TV performances to private life. This turned up incredible crowds for her exclusive concerts at "La Bussola" club in August 1972.^[38][39] About 2,000 spectators struggled their way inside, leaving thousands to listen at the street and the beach.^[40] At the concerts Mina performed selected pieces of her "Teatro 10" shows, with Gianni Ferri conducting an orchestra of grand instrumentalists like Gianni Basso at the tenor saxophone and Oscar Valdambrini at the trumpet.^[39] Pieces of the concert series were recorded and published as "Dalla Bussola". In 2003 "Mina alla Bussola Live '72", a video recording of the performances was published on DVD and VHS by the GSU record company. Having exhausted her contract with Barilla food products in 1973, Mina went on to advertise the Tassoni soft drink, starring in 6 commercials until 1986.

Away from public

In 1973 her husband Virgilio Crocco died in a car accident. Mina continued her chart success with "E poi..." and "L'importante e finire". The last of the grand variety shows, hosted by Mina, was March 16, 1974 "Milleluci", alongside Raffaella Carrà. The show included "Non gioco più", a splendid blues duet with harmonica player Toots Thielemans.^[42] Her last TV appearance was a censored version of her eroticist performance of "Ancora ancora ancora", as the final number of "Mille e una luce" show in July 1, 1978. Her last concert appearances were in 1978 with a series of thirteen fully-booked concerts at "La Bussola" broken off due to illness. Mina gave her last ever public performance in August 23, 1978 at the "Bussoladomani", the new theatre, built by Sergio Bernardini, the owner of "La Bussola", to facilitate the crowds like at Mina's 1972 concert at the same place.^[40] The concert was recorded and published as "Mina Live '78".^[44] Mina has continued to release double albums on a yearly basis, with her son Massimiliano Pani as producer. Every Mina's record under PDU label has reached Italian Top 100. Mina has dedicated monographic albums to The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Renato Zero, the city of Neaples and religious music. In 2001 Mina released a video from her studio in Lugano, broadcasted over internet. In the last years Mina's releases have included duets with Mick Hucknall, Fabrizio De André, Piero Pelù, Adriano Celentano and others. Her latest CDs include "Bau", "Bula Bula", "Platinum Collection" and "The Platinum Collection 2".

Discography

Albums in Italian charts

''Data from HitParadeItalia site'' Top Annuali Album

Album	Year	Max. weekly pos.	Annual pos.
''Bau''	2006	5	111
''Ti amo...''	2006	28	177
''The Platinum Collection 2''	2006	8	92
''L'allieva''	2005	5	51
''Bula Bula''	2005	'1'	21
''The Platinum Collection''	2004	2	7
''Napoli secondo estratto''	2003	15	78
''In duo''	2003	11	119
''Veleno''	2002	'1'	49
''Sconcerto''	2001	5	77
''Colección latina''	2001	26	182
''Dalla terra''	2000	5	42
''Mina Love Collection''	2000	24	125
''Mina n° 0''	1999	3	37
''Olio''	1999	'1'	35
''Mina Studio Collection''	1998	10	74
''Mina Celentano''	1998	'1'	'1'
''Mina Sanremo''	1998	24	155
''Leggera''	1997	2	36
''Minantologia''	1997	13	70
''Napoli''	1996	4	40
''Cremona''	1996	2	12
''Canzoni d'autore''	1996	5	38
''Pappa di latte''	1995	4	46
''Canarino mannaro''	1994	'1'	12
''Mazzini canta Battisti''	1994	5	33
''Lochness''	1993	'1'	35
''Mina canta i Beatles''	1993	3	24
''Sorelle Lumière''	1992	4	29
''Caterpillar''	1991	4	30
''Ti conosco mascherina''	1990	3	28
''''Uiallalla''''	1989	4	17
''Ridi pagliaccio''	1988	2	16
''Oggi ti amo di più''	1988	'1'	21
''Rane supreme''	1987	5	16
''Si, buana''	1986	'1'	14
''Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula''	1985	2	16
''Catene''	1984	2	19
''Mina 25''	1983	8	42
''Italiana''	1982	6	36
''Salomè''	1981	2	29
''Kyrie''	1980	9	33
''Attila''	1979	2	10
''Mina Live '78''	1978	4	17
''Mina con bignè/Mina quasi Jannacci''	1977	4	23
''Singolare/Plurale''	1976	'1'	10
''Minacantalucio/La Mina''	1975	3	5
''Del mio meglio n. 3''	1975	4	12
''Baby Gate/Mina®''	1974	'1'	14
''Frutta e verdura/Amanti di valore''	1973	2	2
''Del mio meglio n. 2''	1973	4	20
''Dalla Bussola/Altro''	1972	2	10
''Cinquemilaquarantatrè''	1972	'1'	5
''Mina''	1971	'1'	'1'
''Del mio meglio''	1971	'1'	2
''Quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore''	1970	'1'	7
''Bugiardo più che mai...più incosciente che mai...''	1969	'1'	'1'
''Mina for You''	1969	4	19
''I discorsi''	1969	-	6
''Canzonissima '68''	1968	-	11
''Mina alla Bussola dal vivo''	1968	-	3
''Dedicato a mio padre''	1967	-	22
''4 anni di successi''	1967	-	9
''Sabato sera - Studio Uno '67''	1967	-	3
''Mina 2''	1966	-	17
''Studio Uno 66''	1966	-	5
''	1965	-	32
''Studio Uno''	1965	-	'1'
''Mina''	1964	-	6

Singles in Italian charts

''Data from HitParadeItalia site'' Top Settimanali Single

Single	Year	Max. weekly pos.	Annual pos.
"Alibi" (CD)	2007	6	37
"Don't call me baby (Can't take my eyes off you)" (CD)	2003	4	38
"Certe cose si fanno"/"Oggi sono io" (CD)	2003	15	98
"Succhiando l'uva"/"I'll See You in My Dreams" (CD)	2003	3	53
"Via di qua"	1986	12	50
"Questione di feeling"	1985	2	13
"Comincia tu"	1984	35	-
"Rose su rose"	1984	17	-
"Devi dirmi di sì"	1983	8	50
"Morirò per te"	1982	36	93
"Una canzone"	1981	36	70
"Buonanotte buonanotte"	1980	9	49
"Anche un uomo"	1979	9	45
"Città vuota"	1978	44	60
"Ancora ancora ancora"	1978	4	41
"Giorni"	1977	9	44
"Nuda"	1976	6	37
"L'importante è finire"	1975	2	2
"Quando mi svegliai"	1975	20	78
"Non gioco più"	1974	3	22
"Lamento d'amore"	1973	6	46
"E poi..."	1973	2	2
"Eccomi"	1972	5	23
"Fiume azzurro"	1972	22	100
"Parole parole"	1972	2	25
"Grande, grande, grande"	1972	'1'	2
"Uomo"	1971	3	34
"Una donna una storia"	1971	9	57
"La mente torna"	1971	16	88
"Amor mio"	1971	3	3
"Una donna, una storia"	1971	9	57
"Insieme"	1970	2	2
"Io e te da soli"	1970	2	17
"Bugiardo e incosciente"	1970	9	49
"Un'ombra"	1969	9	42
"Non credere"	1969	3	3
"Zum zum zum"	1968	22	-
"Vorrei che fosse amore"	1968	10	50
"Un colpo al cuore"	1968	13	68
"Regolarmente"	1968	19	96
"Che vale per me"	1968	38	-
"La banda"	1967	3	18
"L'immensità"	1967	14	79
"Sono come tu mi vuoi"	1966	4	30
"Se telefonando"	1966	7	53
"Ta-ra-ta-ta"	1966	5	38
"Una casa in cima al mondo"	1966	3	27
"L'ultima occasione"	1965	7	42
"Soli"	1965	8	59
"Un bacio è troppo poco"	1965	9	51
"E..."	1965	15	87
"Ora o mai più"	1965	2	19
"E se domani"	1965	4	49
"Un anno d'amore"	1965	'1'	2
"Io sono quel che sono"	1964	7	21
"Un buco nella sabbia"	1964	10	57
"Città vuota"	1964	2	19
"È l'uomo per me"	1964	4	'1'
"Just let me cry"	1963	12	87
"Stessa spaggia stesso mare"	1963	4	21
"Stringimi forte e polsi"	1962	11	80
"Chihuahua"	1962	8	66
"Renato"	1962	4	13
"Moliendo cafè"	1962	'1'	19
"Io amo tu ami"	1961	11	89
"Le mille bolle blu"	1961	5	37
"Due note"	1960	3	28
"Il cielo in una stanza"	1960	'1'	'1'
"È vero"	1960	4	41
"Coriandoli"	1960	6	58
"Tintarella di luna"	1959	'1'	15

Selected duets

★ With Adriano Celentano: ''Acqua e sale - Brivido felino - Che t'aggia di' - Dolce fuoco dell'amore - Io non volevo - Messaggio d'amore - Sempre sempre sempre - Specchi riflessi''

★ With Alberto Lupo: ''Parole parole''

★ With Alberto Sordi: ''Fumo di Londra''

★ With Andrea Mingardi: ''Datemi della musica'' - ''Mogol Battisti''

★ With Angel "Pato" Garcia: ''Contigo en la distancia''

★ With Ástor Piazzolla: ''Balada para mi muerte''

★ With the Audio 2: ''Dentro ad ogni cosa'' - ''Rotola la vita''

★ With Benedetta Mazzini: ''More Than Words''

★ With Beppe Grillo: ''Dottore''

★ With Enzo Jannacci: ''E l'era tardi''

★ With Fabrizio De André: ''La canzone di Marinella''

★ With Fausto Leali: ''Via di qua''

★ With Fred Bongusto: Medley ''Non ci lasceremo mai - Frida - Sei proprio tu - Doce doce - A Detroit''

★ With Gianni Morandi: Reggio Emilia - Meglio sarebbe - L'uva fogarina (Teresina imbriaguna) - Come porti i capelli bella bionda

★ With Giorgio Gaber: Medley ''Porta romana - La ballata del Cerutti - Trani a gogò - Barbera e champagne - Il Riccardo''

★ With Johnny Dorelli and Renato Carosone: Medley ''Scapricciatiello - Pigliate 'na pasticca - Pasqualino Marajà - 'Na voce e 'na chitarra''

★ With Lelio Luttazzi: ''Chi mai sei tu''

★ With Lucio Battisti: Medley ''Insieme - Mi ritorni in mente - Il tempo di morire - E penso a te - Io e te da soli - Eppur mi son scordato di te - Emozioni''

★ With Lucio Dalla: ''Amore disperato''

★ With Massimiliano Pani: ''Come stai'' - ''If I Fell''

★ With Massimo Lopez: ''Noi''

★ With Mick Hucknall: ''Someday in My Life''

★ With Miguel Bosé: ''Agua y sal''

★ With Milva: ''Motherless Child - Non arrenderti uomo''

★ With Mónica Naranjo: ''El se encuentrará entre tu y yo''

★ With Piero Pelù: ''Stay with me''

★ With Renato Zero: ''Neri - Tutti gli zeri del mondo''

★ With Riccardo Cocciante: ''Amore - Bella senz'anima'' - ''Questione di feeling''

★ With Toots Thielemans: ''Non gioco più''

★ With the Voci Atroci: ''Suona ancora''

Filmography

Mina has acted in the following movies: ^[45]

★ ''Juke box - Urli d'amore'' (1959)

★ ''Teddy Boys della canzone'' (1960)

★ ''Urlatori alla sbarra'' (1960)

★ ''Madri pericolose'' (1960)

★ ''Io bacio... tu baci'' (1961)

★ ''Mina... fuori la guardia'' (1961)

★ ''Das haben die Mädchen gern'' (1962)

★ ''Appuntamento in Riviera'' (1962)

★ ''Silvester Show'' (1964)

★ ''Per amore... per magia...'' (1967)

Bibliography

Data from the publishing houses

★ ''Mina, come sono'' by Gianni Pettenat (Virgilio 1980)

★ ''Mina, la voce'' by Mario Guarino (Forte 1983)

★ ''Unicamente Mina'' by Flavio Merkel and Paolo Belluso (Gammalibri 1983)

★ ''La leggendaria Mina'' (PDU Italiana Edizioni Musicali S.r.l./Curci 1983

★ ''Mina. Storia di un mito'' by Nino Romano (Rusconi 1986)

★ ''Mina nelle fotografie di Mauro Balletti'' (Campanotto 1990)

★ ''Mina - Le immagini e la storia di un mito'' (Eden 1992)

★ ''Mina - Mito e mistero'' by Nino Romano (Sperling & Kupfer1996)

★ ''Mina - I miti'' by Antonella Giola, Daniela Teruzzi & Gherardo Gentili (Arnoldo Mondadori 1997)

★ ''Mina - I mille volti di una voce'' by Romy Padovano (Arnoldo Mondadori 1998)

★ ''Divina Mina'' by Dora Giannetti (Zelig 1998)

★ ''Mina'' by Roberta Maresci (Gremese1998)

★ ''Mina - Una forza incantatrice'' by Franco Fabbri & Luigi Pestalozza (eds; Euresis 1998)

★ ''Mina - La sua vita, i suoi successi'' by Gianni Lucini (Sonzogno 1999)

★ ''Mina, il mito'' (Tempo Libro 1999)

★ ''Studio Mina'' by Flaviano De Luca (ed; Elle U Multimedia 1999)

★ ''Mina disegnata fotografata'' -Authors' copyright- 2001

★ ''Mina: Gli anni Italdisc 1959 - 1964'' by Marco Castiglioni, Fulvio Fiore, Maurizio Maiotti, Stefania Fiore, Barbara Alari and Maurizio Maiotti (Satisfaction 2001)

★ ''Mina 1958 - 2005 Ancora insieme'' by Marcello Bufacchi (Riuniti 2005)

★ ''Mina talk. Vent'anni di interviste. 1959-1979'' by Fernando Fratarcangeli (Coniglio 2005)

★ ''Mina... il fascino della tigre'' by Ghea Irene (Lo Vecchio 2006)

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