Mina is a wonderful music talent from Italy where she was born in 1940.
More about Mina
Anna Maria Mazzini well known as Mina was born 25 March 1940 in Busto Arsizio but she moved to Cremona when she was 3 years old.
She is one of the most famous and italian singer of all time who sang more than 1500 songs and she has scored 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italian charts by selling nearly 200 million records.
Absolutely Mina has been the icon of Italian pop music in the 60s and 70s thanks to her impressive vocal qualities that identify her as a dramatic soprano of agility, despite not having the academic setting of classical soprano.
Her warm timbre and very personal, immediately recognizable, has large range, extent, agility. She's able to combine the vocal power with the flexibility supported by a very solid technique.
Mina is also notable fot her interpretative skills and versatility that allowed her to face led her to successfully face different musical genres.
She is also known for her three-octave vocal range, for the agility of her soprano voice and for her image as an emancipated woman: so she has been nicknamed the "Tigre di Cremona" (Tiger of Cremona).