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Why was Mina nicknamed the Cremona tiger?
T utti ask, everyone wants her, everyone celebrates her: it is often the same to throw water on the fire of the enthusiasm of the many fans, stating that it is not yet the time of commemorations.
Yet it is undeniable: Mina Anna Mazzini nicknamed the Tiger of Cremona, birth of birth, Cremonese of training, floating in great secret between Italian Switzerland, Lombardy and Versilia, is the largest Italian living music singer of light music.
A title that has been entitled to her for decades, also in spite of Indro Montanelli who, sixty years ago, when she made her debut at the great capturing the youth audience of the time, had answered the question of a colleague about what he thought, for the In fact, of Mina with a laconic and presumptuous: "Who is it?".
Loaring Mina's first records, more stylistic variations are noticed, before setting up a certain uniformity in singing from the seventies onwards.
The first things are, as then it was said, "screamed", with a ringing voice, rhythmic, at times a little "scat" and perhaps giving a certain "American" touch also to the diction of the song (let's not forget about his "alter Ego "of the beginning," Baby Gate ", name of art adopted to launch in Italy American songs of clear rock'n roll mold, also with unexpected acute as in the final of its version of" The Diary "by Neil Sedaka), a Tocco that reaches the culmination with a 1960 Swing song entitled "Confidential", in which even the pronunciation of certain words seems "Anglo -American".
Over time, here the Lombard singer adopts a precious tactic, that of "living" every text that sings and interpreting it in a very participant way, albeit sometimes, especially at the beginning, she falls into certain traps that, to listen to them today, arouse A certain annoyance, like that crying of the fans who accompanies the ending of "Piano", also a song from 1960, signed by Giorgio Calabrese and Tony de Vita, then intended for worldwide success a few years later thanks to Frank Sinatra who will affect him with the Title of "Softly As I Leave You".
The years pass fast and the great test arrives in 1964, when a very interesting LP, "Mina", in which, apart "and if tomorrow ..." and "Don't delude you", is the music of
Americas to make it the master. In this way Mazzini consecrates himself class interpreter, giving the right "swing" to the American "standards" and that polite sweetness necessary to offer the songs "Latin" of the South in Spanish or Portuguese. The last touch of maturation is shortly before the age of thirty, around 1968, when the voice becomes less screamed and a little more "dark" and "nasal", but this is the definitive line that draws the song of Mina as we now know it and that the weather keeps unaltered (and we believe that there are very few incision room tricks necessary to calibrate the frequencies: you know how much - and it can confirm it without problems its firstborn Massimiliano, who makes music Always her profession - She manages to solve everything, headphones in the head and base in diffusion, with the classic "Good first!").
Still other eighties at least these days, never tame "Tiger di Cremona", bearer of a truly unique stamp, and soon and feeling with other new and interesting executions! ! !
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