NINA is a German Synthpop and Synthwave singer-songwriter based in London, UK. Some of these songs are "Parole parole" as "Palavra", "Senza fiato" as Son Yolcu, "Il cigno dell'amore" as "Düşünme Hiç", Giorni as "Ya Sonra", "Mi mandi rose" as "Kim Olsa Anlatır" and "Ancora, ancora, ancora" as "Aldatma". She was a staple of Italian television variety shows[5] and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s,[6] known for her three-octave vocal range,[7] the agility of her soprano voice,[7] and her image as an emancipated woman. Anna Maria Quaini[2][3] or Mina Mazzini[4] OMRI (born 25 March 1940), known asMina, is one of the most successful Italian singers of all time. Mizz Nina, professional name of Shazrina binti Azman (born 1980), Malaysian fashion designer; Nina (Spanish singer) (born 1932), professional name of Anna Maria Agustí Flores (born 1966),Spanish actress and singer Nina, former ring name of Lisa Mary Moretti, who has also been known as Ivory (wrestler), Tina Ferrari and Tina Moretti (born 1961), American professional wrestler It peaked at number 17 on the Italian Albums Chart. A staunch Civil Rights activist, she was known for tunes like "Mississippi Goddam," "Young, Gifted and Black" and "Four Women.". Nina Pane Sanseverino was born in New Haven, CT on December 2, 1939, to the late Luigi and Giuseppina Pastore Pane. Simone began recording her music in the late 1950s under the Bethlehem label, releasing her first full album in 1957, which featured "Plain Gold Ring" and the title track, "Little Girl Blue." [11], "Se telefonando" was presented in May 1966 in a Studio Uno episode and in August the same year at Aria condizionata. After "Non gioco più" ("The Game Is Over"), a blues duet with the harmonica player Toots Thielemans, Mina announced her withdrawal from public performances. This resulted in millions of visits to the site on that night, and additional millions on following days. Nina is the youngest of four children, Josephine, Louise and Gaetano. He had copied the snippet of melody from the siren of a police car in Marseilles. Mina's voice has distinctive timbre and great power. Under different labels, Simone released a bevy of albums from the late '50s throughout the '60s and early '70s, including records like The Amazing Nina Simone (1959), Nina Simone Sings Ellington! [...] for many people a memorable experience, [...] a revelation. [78][79] A year later, Dalida andAlain Delon recorded the French version of "Parole parole" and made it an international hit. Simone died in France on April 21, 2003. Mina's last live TV appearance was the final episode of the Milleluci series on 16 March 1974. Tanita Tikaram covered Mina's "And I Think of You - E penso a te" in English as a track on the album The Best of Tanita Tikaram. Mina continued to release albums on a yearly basis with her son Massimiliano Pani as the producer. Also Known As. "Grande grande grande", arranged by Pino Presti,[59] was the second biggest-selling single of the year in Italy. [35] Mina performed on Spanish TV and at the Paris Olympia hall at the beginning of 1962. [20] Her concert in September 1958, before an audience of 2,500 people at the Theatre of Rivarolo del Re, won enthusiastic approval from local critics. [57] Mogol and his fellow composer Lucio Battisti, along with thePremiata Forneria Marconi on back-up instrumentals, worked with Mina on several songs as a result of the success of "Non credere". ', Legendary performer Nina Simone sang a mix of jazz, blues and folk music in the 1950s and '60s. Mina was the hostess of the series alongside Raffaella Carrà. One of the highlights of the series was a selection of Battisti's songs performed in duet with the composer. Sample from the live performance of "La voce del silenzio" ("Silent Voices") from the eighth Canzonissima Saturday nightprime time variety show on 16 November 1968. Mina's brother Alfredo Mazzini died in a car accident in 1965. To celebrate Mina's 70th anniversary, the la Repubblica newspaper held a reader's poll to pick Mina's best song of all time. As her songs and movies were already popular abroad, Mina started to tour Spain and Japan,[34] and performed on Venezuelan TV in 1961. As the 1960s drew to a close, Simone tired of the American music scene and the country's deeply divided racial politics. [18] She helped to incorporate new styles into Italian pop music, including nuevo tango, as seen in her duet "Balada para mi muerte" with Ástor Piazzolla. Mina's comeback took place at RAI's variety series Teatro 10 in spring 1972. The starlet signed with Elio Gigante, an experienced artist manager. Mina Anna Mazzini . "Io amo, tu ami" ("I Love, You Love") finished fourth and "Le mille bolle blu" ("A Thousand Blue Bubbles") placed fifth. [33] Disappointed with these results, Mina declared her intention of never performing at the Sanremo song festival again. The successes encouraged Enrico Riccardi to copy Battisti's style in Riccardi's composition "Fiume azzurro", which earned another place in the top 100 of annual record sales in Italy. After the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Simone's bassist Greg Taylor penned "Why (The King of Love Is Dead)," which was performed by the singer and her band at the Westbury Music Festival. She sang to share her truth, and her work still resonates with great emotion and power. [20] Her Studio Uno album topped the Italian chart that year. Two documentaries on the musician's life were released in 2015: The Amazing Nina Simone, directed by Jeff L. Lieberman, and What Happened, Miss Simone?, from Netflix. After a few bars Mina grabbed the lyrics sheet and started to sing as if she had known the tune before. Mina's growing interest in Brazilian music resulted in "La banda" ("The Band"), a Chico Buarque song, which reached #3 in Italy. A fan of bossa nova, Mina recorded in Spanish and Portuguese from the start of her career and currently enjoys a fan base in Spain and Latin America. He is known for his work as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, and for his long-running success as a solo artist. [75] It included duets with Joan Manuel Serrat, Miguel Bosé, Diego Torres, Chico Buarque, and Diego El Cigala. The EP includes the singles "50mila" and "L'inferno". She wrote "Mississippi Goddam" in response to the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing that killed four young African-American girls. [20] The family moved to work in Cremona in her childhood. Her loud syncopated singingEARNED her the nickname Queen of Screamers. The duet album Mina Celentano, recorded with Adriano Celentano, was the biggest-selling album of 1998 in Italy.