Trivia

Liza Minnelli is a fan of hers.

Mother of Benedetta Mazzini and Massimiliano Pani. Grandmother of Axel and Edoardo Pani, great-grandmother of Alma Pani (Axel's daughter).

Her stage career lasted from 1958 to 1978. She continues to sing but never appears live.

Married Eugenio Quaini after being together for 25 years.

Supports Inter Milan.

Her 1998 album of duets with Adriano Celentano is one of the best-selling albums of all time in Italy.

Her family moved to work in Cremona in her childhood.

The Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has used Mina's songs in his movie soundtracks.

She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s.

She obtained Swiss citizenship in 1989.

President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi presented her with the Second Class of the Italian Order of Merit on 1 June 2001.

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.

Mina's TV appearances in 1959 were the first for a female rock and roll singer in Italy.

The web event, live on the portal Wind, which portrays some video clips of the artist in the recording studio, has recorded over 20 million hits, and was one of the most followed of all times in Italy.

Mina's easy listening duet "Parole parole" was turned into a worldwide hit by Dalida and Alain Delon in 1974.

She is the only artist to land an album at the top of the Italian charts in each of the six decades from the start of record keeping in 1965.

In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her the most versatile pop singer in Italian music.

Top Italian songwriters created material with large vocal ranges and unusual chord progressions to showcase her singing skills, particularly "Brava" by Bruno Canfora (1965) and the pseudo-serial "Se telefonando" by Ennio Morricone (1966).

Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan has covered more than a dozen of Mina songs.

The latter song was covered by several performers abroad. Shirley Bassey carried Mina's ballad "Grande grande grande" to charts in the U.S., UK, and other English-speaking countries in 1973.

Mina became engaged to her current husband, cardiologist Eugenio Quaini, in 1981.

She is known for her three-octave vocal range.

Mina's brother Alfredo Mazzini died in a car accident in 1965.

The public also labeled her the "Tigress of Cremona" for her wild gestures and body shakes.

English musician Elvis Costello used a sample from Mina's "Un bacio è troppo poco" on his album When I Was Cruel.