Agostino “Tino” Buazzelli (Frascati, 13 luglio 1922 – Roma, 20 ottobre 1980) è stato un attore italiano di teatro, cinema e televisione, e pittore.
Considerato tra i migliori interpreti brechtiani del Novecento, è ricordato per l’interpretazione di Galileo Galilei nella Vita di Galileo diretto da Giorgio Strehler nella stagione 1962/1963 al Piccolo Teatro di Milano. L’incontro con Strehler risale al 1952, quando il regista lo chiamò per mettere in scena Elisabetta d’Inghilterra di Ferdinand Bruckner, Il revisore di Nikolai Gogol e Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore di Pirandello.
Buazzelli raggiunse l’apice della popolarità interpretando il personaggio dell’investigatore privato Nero Wolfe, creato da Rex Stout, in una serie di dieci telefilm trasmessi tra il 1969 e il 1971, diretti da Giuliana Berlinguer, interpretati anche da Paolo Ferrari nel ruolo di Archie Goodwin e Pupo De Luca nel ruolo del cuoco svizzero Fritz Brenner. Lo sceneggiato raggiunse 19 milioni di spettatori di media a puntata, superando persino il Commissario Maigret interpretato da Gino Cervi.
Agostino “Tino” Buazzelli (13 September 1922 – 20 October 1980) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1948 and 1978.
After a diploma of education, Buazzelli enrolled the Accademia d’Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1946. He made his debut the following year, in the stage company Maltagliati-Gassman.[1] He made his film debut in 1948, in Riccardo Freda’s Il cavaliere misterioso. Buazzelli’s major successes relates to theatre, notably several stage works played in Piccolo Teatro in Milan between fifties and sixties, and his interpretation of Brecht’s Life of Galileo (1963) referred as the peak of his career.[1] Buazzelli had also a significant television success as Nero Wolfe in a series of television films starred between 1969 and 1971.
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 5 marzo 1922 – Roma, 2 novembre 1975) è stato un poeta, scrittore, regista, sceneggiatore, drammaturgo e giornalista italiano, considerato tra i maggiori artisti e intellettuali del XX secolo. Culturalmente versatile, si distinse in numerosi campi, lasciando contributi anche come pittore, romanziere, linguista, traduttore e saggista, non solo in lingua italiana, ma anche friulana.
Attento osservatore dei cambiamenti della società italiana dal secondo dopoguerra sino alla metà degli anni settanta, suscitò spesso forti polemiche e accesi dibattiti per la radicalità dei suoi giudizi, assai critici nei riguardi delle abitudini borghesi e della nascente società dei consumi, come anche nei confronti del Sessantotto e dei suoi protagonisti. Il suo rapporto con la propria omosessualità fu al centro del suo personaggio pubblico.
Anna Magnani (Roma, 7 marzo 1908 – Roma, 26 settembre 1973) è stata un’attrice italiana.
Considerata una delle maggiori interpreti femminili della storia.Attrice simbolo del cinema italiano, è altresì particolarmente conosciuta per essere stata, insieme ad Alberto Sordi e Aldo Fabrizi, una delle figure preminenti della romanità cinematografica del XX secolo.Celebri le sue interpretazioni, soprattutto in film come Roma città aperta, Bellissima, Mamma Roma e La rosa tatuata. Quest’ultimo le valse un Oscar alla miglior attrice protagonista.
Prima del film “accattone” in Francia 10/12/61
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, philosopher, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, painter and political figure.
He remains a controversial personality in Italy to this day due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters, but he is an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in some circles of Italy, with its circumstances continuing to be a matter of heated debate.
Anna Magnani (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna maɲˈɲaːni]; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress.She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.
Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome’s Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled.
She was referred to as “La Lupa,” the “perennial toast of Rome” and a “living she-wolf symbol” of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as “fiery”, and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was “volcanic”. In the realm of Italian cinema she was “passionate, fearless, and exciting,” an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls “the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema.”[3] Director Roberto Rossellini called her “the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse”. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received an Oscar in 1955.
After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema.As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of “earthy lower-class women” in such films as L’Amore (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1959) and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950 Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was “one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo”.
Sophia Loren, nome d’arte di Sofia Villani Scicolone (Roma, 20 settembre 1934), è un’attrice italiana.
Tra le più celebri attrici della storia del cinema, la Loren entra nel mondo della settima arte giovanissima e si impone ben presto, agli inizi degli anni cinquanta, come sex symbol grazie al corpo da maggiorata. Da Vittorio De Sica sarà diretta in film come La ciociara, che le valse l’Oscar alla migliore attrice, il primo dato ad un’attrice in un film non in lingua inglese e l’unica attrice insieme a Marion Cotillard a detenere questo record. Nel 1965, per il film Matrimonio all’italiana, riceverà una seconda candidatura all’Oscar, mentre nel 1991 le verrà assegnato un Oscar alla carriera.
Durante la sua lunga carriera, ha vinto 2 Oscar, 5 Golden Globe, un Leone d’oro, la Coppa Volpi a Venezia, un Prix d’interprétation féminine a Cannes, un Orso d’oro alla carriera a Berlino, un BAFTA, 9 David di Donatello (di cui quattro riconoscimenti speciali) e 3 Nastri d’argento. Nel 1999, l’American Film Institute (31 premi) ha inserito la Loren al ventunesimo posto tra le più grandi star della storia del cinema, fra le 25 attrici della classifica la Loren è l’unica attrice ancora in vita.
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Sophia Loren (/soʊˈfiːələˈrɛn/; Italian pronunciation: [soˈfiːa ˈlɔːren]; born Sofia Villani Scicolone[soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃʃikoˈloːne], 20 September 1934) is an Italian film actress. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career in 1950 at age 15. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples.
Her talents as an actress were not recognized until her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women; Loren’s performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962 and made her the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance. She holds the record for having earned six David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, the most ever received: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Marriage Italian Style (for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); Sunflower; The Voyage; and A Special Day. After starting her family in the early 1970s, Loren spent less time on her acting career and chose to make only occasional film appearances. In later years, she has appeared in American films such as Grumpier Old Men and Nine.
Aside from the Academy Award, she has won a Grammy Award, five special Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Honorary Academy Award in 1991. In 1995, she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements, one of many such awards. In 1999, Loren was acknowledged as one of the top 25 female American Screen Legends in the American Film Institute’s survey, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars.
Dario Fo (Sangiano, 24 marzo 1926 – Milano, 13 ottobre 2016) è stato un drammaturgo, attore, regista, scrittore, autore, illustratore, pittore, scenografo e attivista italiano.
Vincitore del premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1997 (già candidato nel febbraio 1975[2]), i suoi lavori teatrali fanno uso degli stilemi comici propri della Commedia dell’arte italiana e sono rappresentati con successo in tutto il mondo. In quanto attore, regista, scrittore, scenografo, costumista e impresario della sua stessa compagnia, Fo è uomo di teatro a tutto tondo.
È famoso per i suoi testi teatrali di satira politica e sociale e per l’impegno politico di sinistra. Con la moglie Franca Rame fu tra gli esponenti del Soccorso Rosso Militante.
Franca Rame (Parabiago, 18 luglio 1929 – Milano, 29 maggio 2013) è stata un’attrice teatrale, drammaturga e politica italiana.
Jacopo Fo (Roma, 31 marzo 1955) è uno scrittore, attore, regista, fumettista, blogger e attivista italiano.
Dario Fo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːrjo ˈfɔ]; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian actor-playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner of the Italian left-wing, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. “Arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre”, much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of “illegitimate” forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari (medieval strolling players) and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell’arte.
His plays have been translated into 30 languages and performed across the world, including in Argentina, Chile, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. His work of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s is peppered with criticisms of assassinations, corruption, organised crime, racism, Roman Catholic theology and war. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he took to lampooning Forza Italia and its leader Silvio Berlusconi, while his targets of the 2010s have included the banks amid the European sovereign-debt crisis. Also in the 2010s, he became the main ideologue of the Five Star Movement, the anti-establishment party led by Beppe Grillo, often referred by its members as “the Master“.
Fo’s solo pièce célèbre, titled Mistero Buffo and performed across Europe, Canada and Latin America over a 30-year period, is recognised as one of the most controversial and popular spectacles in postwar European theatre and has been denounced by the Vatican as “the most blasphemous show in the history of television”. The title of the original English translation of Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga! (Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!) has passed into the English language. “The play captures something universal in actions and reactions of the working class.”
His receipt of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature marked the “international acknowledgment of Fo as a major figure in twentieth-century world theatre”. The Swedish Academy praised Fo as a writer “who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”. He owned and operated a theatre company. Fo was an atheist.
Jacopo Fo (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian writer-actor and director. He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Fo.
His 1992 book Lo Zen e l’arte di scopare (Zen and the Art of Fucking) sold more than 70,000 copies. It formed the basis of the 1994 monologue Sesso? Grazie, tanto per gradire! (Sex? Thanks, Don’t Mind If I Do!), which Jacopo Fo worked on with his father and mother, featuring educational pieces on topics such as AIDS, contraception, sex education and sexual repression. The government of Silvio Berlusconi, recently risen to power, banned Italians under the age of 18 from seeing it over fears, it said, that the play could “cause offence to the common decency which requires respect for spheres of decency, and provoke distress among adolescent spectators, with possible effects on their behaviour in relation to sex”, thus defeating the original purpose of the performance. Much free publicity ensued, with the censorship issue being debated in the national parliament, teachers calling for it to be performed, and audiences and both Italian and foreign intellectuals signing a petition calling for the ban to be overturned.
Jacopo Fo has in more recent times been prominent in the political campaign of Beppe Grillo
Franca Rame (18 July 1929 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo. Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her.
Domenico Modugno (Polignano a Mare, 9 gennaio 1928 – Lampedusa, 6 agosto 1994) è stato un cantautore, chitarrista, attore, regista e uomo politico italiano.
Considerato uno dei padri della canzone italiana e uno tra i più prolifici artisti in generale, avendo scritto e inciso circa 230 canzoni, interpretato 38 film per il cinema e 7 per la televisione, nonché recitato in 13 spettacoli teatrali, condotto alcuni programmi televisivi, e vinto quattro Festival di Sanremo: universalmente nota è la prima di tali quattro vittorie, quella del 1958 (primo cantautore in gara nella storia della manifestazione) con Nel blu dipinto di blu, ma ribattezzata quasi subito dal pubblico Volare, destinata a diventare una delle canzoni italiane più conosciute, se non la più conosciuta al mondo, tanto da vendere 800 000 copie in Italia e oltre 22 milioni nel mondo. Modugno è anche uno dei due cantanti italiani (l’altro è Renato Carosone), ad aver venduto dischi negli Stati Uniti senza inciderli in inglese. Nei suoi ultimi anni fu anche deputato e dirigente del Partito Radicale. È tra gli artisti italiani che hanno venduto il maggior numero di dischi con oltre 70 milioni di copie.
Domenico Modugno (Italian pronunciation: [doˈmeːniko moˈduɲɲo]; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song “Nel blu dipinto di blu”. He is considered the first Italian cantautore.
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George Orson Welles (Kenosha, 6 maggio 1915 – Los Angeles, 10 ottobre 1985) è stato un attore, regista, sceneggiatore, scrittore, drammaturgo e produttore cinematografico statunitense.
È considerato uno degli artisti più versatili e innovativi del Novecento in ambito teatrale, radiofonico e cinematografico. Conquistò il successo all’età di ventitré anni grazie allo spettacolo radiofonico La guerra dei mondi, trasmissione che, leggenda narra, scatenò il panico in buona parte degli Stati Uniti, facendo credere alla popolazione di essere sotto attacco da parte dei marziani. Questo insolito debutto gli diede la celebrità e gli fece ottenere un contratto per un film all’anno con la casa di produzione cinematografica RKO, da realizzare con assoluta libertà artistica. Nonostante questa vantaggiosa clausola, solo uno dei progetti previsti poté vedere la luce: Quarto potere (1941), il più grande successo cinematografico di Welles, considerato “il più bel film della storia del cinema” secondo un sondaggio della rivista britannica Sight & Sound che ha interpellato oltre 250 critici e registi cinematografici.
La carriera successiva di Welles fu ostacolata da una lunga serie di difficoltà e inconvenienti che non gli permise di continuare a lavorare a Hollywood e che lo costrinse a trasferirsi in Europa, dove continuò a cercare di realizzare le proprie opere finanziandosi soprattutto con apparizioni in film altrui. Fra i suoi molti progetti, Welles riuscì a realizzare e dirigere film come: Macbeth (1948), Otello (1952), L’infernale Quinlan (1958), Il processo (1962), F come falso (1975) ed altri.
La sua fama è aumentata dopo la sua morte, avvenuta nel 1985, ed è considerato uno dei maggiori registi cinematografici e teatrali del XX secolo. Palma d’oro a Cannes nel 1952 (all’epoca Gran Prix du Festival), ricevette, tra gli altri riconoscimenti, l’Oscar alla carriera nel 1971. Nel 2002 è stato votato dal British Film Institute come il più grande regista di tutti i tempi. L’American Film Institute ha inserito Welles al sedicesimo posto tra le più grandi star della storia del cinema.
George Orson Welles (/ˈwɛlz/; May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably Caesar (1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast “The War of the Worlds”, one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films.
Welles directed a number of high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth with an entirely African American cast, and the political musical The Cradle Will Rock. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented an acclaimed series of productions on Broadway through 1941. Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds performed for his radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring. Although some contemporary sources claim these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety.
His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in as Charles Foster Kane. Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. He struggled for creative control on his projects early on with the major film studios and later in life with a variety of independent financiers, and his films were either heavily edited or remained unreleased. His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. He has been praised as a major creative force and as “the ultimate auteur”.
Welles followed up Citizen Kane with critically acclaimed films including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 and Touch of Evil in 1958. Although these three are his most acclaimed films, critics have argued other works of his, such as The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Chimes at Midnight (1966), are underappreciated.
In 2002, Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was a well-regarded actor in radio and film, a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor, and an accomplished magician noted for presenting troop variety shows in the war years.
Charles Aznavour, nome d’arte di Chahnourh Varinag Aznavourian (armeno: Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան; Parigi, 22 maggio 1924), è un cantautore, attore e diplomatico francese di origine armena.
Noto con il soprannome di Charles Aznavoice, è anche detto il “Frank Sinatra d’Europa”. Insignito della Legion d’Onore per il lustro dato alla Francia, è ambasciatore dell’Armenia in Svizzera dal 12 febbraio 2009.
Aznavour canta in sette lingue e ha venduto oltre 300 milioni di dischi nel mondo.
Charles Aznavour (en arménien Շառլ Ազնաւուր), né Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian (Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնաւուրեան) le 22 mai 1924 à Paris, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète, acteur, écrivain et diplomate français. Il obtient en décembre 2008 la nationalité arménienne, lors de sa nomination au poste d’ambassadeur d’Arménie.
Pendant ses soixante-dix ans de carrière, Charles Aznavour a écrit plus de huit cent chansons. Sur disque, il en a enregistré plus de mille deux cents, chantées dans huit langues différentes. Au total, le chanteur totalise aujourd’hui plus de 180 millions de disques vendus à travers le monde
Il réside à Saint-Sulpice (Canton de Vaud), en Suisse, où il est l’ambassadeur de l’Arménie et le représentant permanent de ce pays auprès de l’ONU (auparavant, il était depuis 1995 le représentant permanent de l’Arménie auprès de l’Unesco).
Charles Aznavour (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl aznavuʁ]; born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian on 22 May 1924) is a French and Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Aznavour is known for his unique tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. He has written over 800 songs and recorded over 1,200, sung in eight languages and sold more than 180 million records.
He is one of France’s most popular and enduring singers. He has been dubbed France’s Frank Sinatra, while music critic Stephen Holden has described Aznavour as “French pop deity.” He is also arguably the most famous Armenian of his time.In 1998, Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of Time Online from around the globe. He was recognized as the century’s outstanding performer, with nearly 18% of the total vote, edging out Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan.
He has sung for presidents, popes and royalty, as well as at humanitarian events. In response to the 1988 Armenian earthquake, he founded the charitable organization Aznavour for Armenia along with his long-time friend impresario Levon Sayan. In 2009, he was appointed ambassador of Armenia to Switzerland, as well as Armenia’s permanent delegate to the United Nations at Geneva. Aznavour is the longest standing “A list” star, still filling major venues all over the world. He started his most recent tour in 2014.
“Count” Basie, nato William Allen Basie (Red Bank, 21 agosto 1904 – Hollywood, 26 aprile 1984), è stato un compositore, pianista, direttore d’orchestra e bandleader statunitense di musica jazz.
William James Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) professionally better known as Count Basie, was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By 16 years old, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten’s band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten’s death in 1935.
In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two “split” tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry “Sweets” Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie’s theme songs were “One O’Clock Jump”, developed in 1935 in the early days of his band, and later “April in Paris”.
William Basie, dit Count Basie, né le 21 août 1904 et mort le 26 avril 1984, est un pianiste, organiste et chef d’orchestre de jazz. Son orchestre s’inscrit dans la tradition de Kansas City, ville-berceau du middle jazz orchestral. Il était surnommé la machine à swing.
Son big band représente, avec celui de Duke Ellington, la quintessence du jazz classique dont il a porté la bonne parole pendant 50 ans dans le monde entier. Il a abordé tous les registres, du blues aux succès de Broadway en passant par les grands standards, toujours avec la même ferveur sincère.
Le Count Basie Orchestra aura été un tremplin pour nombre de musiciens majeurs de l’époque comme Lester Young, Herschel Evans, Buck Clayton, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Dicky Wells, Buddy Tate.
Fu anche un apprezzato ceramista e prolifico disegnatore; usava dire agli amici di considerarsi «anche un poeta». Picasso è figlio di María Picasso e di José Ruiz Blasco Lopez dè Onate, anch’egli pittore ed insegnante. Pur nella duplicità dell’assegnazione dei cognomi nei paesi latini, Picasso preferì sempre utilizzare il cognome della madre piuttosto che quello paterno
Lucia Bosè (born 28 January 1931), is an Italian actress, who was at the height of her fame during the period of Italian Neorealism, the 1940s and 1950s. She is the mother of famous Spanish singer Miguel Bosé.
“Se non avessi la mia voce vorrei avere quella di una
giovane ragazza italiana di nome Mina”
Sarah Vaughan. 1968.
Mina è la più grande voce italiana di sempre. Ma non solo. Per gli italiani Mina è un’icona al pari di altri grandi “marchi”che parlano di qualità eccelsa nel mondo, quali Ferrari o Fellini. Nell’immaginario collettivo per gli italiani Mina è un patrimonio del quale andare orgogliosi.
Mina ha incarnato il modello del talento e della diva dello spettacolo sulle scene, in televisone e nei suoi dischi. Ha fatto la storia della televisione italiana negli anni ’60 e ’70 per poi decidere di non apparirvi più. Ha interpretato le canzoni di successo che hanno accompagnato la vita quotidiana degli italiani per 40 anni. Mina pubblica un lavoro discografico inedito ogni anno.
Oggi è forse l’unico caso al mondo di un artista che non si concede ai media (infatti non rilascia interviste e non fa né recitals né apparizioni pubbliche da più di 20 anni) rimanendo ugualmente al primo posto in classifica ogni volta che pubblica un nuovo disco.
Oltre a intensificare la sua attività discografica, negli ultimi anni Mina ha scritto su importanti testate, incarico in cui si è rivelata padrona di un pensiero importante: protagonista di seguitissimi editoriali dove il suo talento come artista e la sua acutezza e credibilità l’hanno portata ad essere autorevole come editorialista tanto quanto come cantante.
Con l’ironia che il suo “talento totale” le ha costantemente assicurato, Mina, già da molti anni prima che si parlasse di “look”, ha sempre giocato con la sua immagine, stravolgendola nelle copertine dei suoi dischi, che sono anche state oggetto di mostre nei musei italiani. Mina ha sempre precorso i tempi e amato confrontarsi con le nuove tecnologie. Nel 2001 ha aperto le porte del suo studio di registrazione attraverso internet, dando in streaming un filmato dove registrava live.
Le richieste di poter vedere Mina in questo documento filmato al server dell’operatore Wind telecomunicazioni s.p.a. sono state addirittura 50 milioni, facendo collassare l’intero sistema…
Mina è un’artista eclettica e versatile che ha interpretato musica di tutti i generi spaziando tra i diversi stili con assoluta proprietà di linguaggio.
“If I didn’t have my own voice, I’d like to have the voice of a young Italian girl named Mina”
Sarah Vaughan. 1968.
Mina is the greatest Italian singer of all times, but not only. For Italians, Mina is an icon equally as important as the biggest and best known names about which they boast as proof that Italy has the highest quality everything in the world, like Ferrari or Fellini. In the Italian collective imagination, Mina is a national treasure to be proud of and jealously guarded.
During the ‘60s and the ‘70s Mina embodied the very essence of the ultra-talented superstar on stage, in TV and in her records. She made television history and then suddenly, inexplicably decided to retire. She sang Italy’s greatest hits, which for over 40 years have been the leitmotiv of the everyday life of the Italian people. Nowadays Mina releases one record a year. She is perhaps the only artist in the world that does not offer herself up to the media – as a matter of fact, she does not grant interviews, has not appeared in concert or made any other public appearance for more than 20 years. Yet, all her new albums reach number one in the national hit parade.
In addition to her recordings, in recent years Mina has published as freelance journalist in important newspapers and magazines, revealing a penchant for deep, thought-provoking insight. Her successful columns have earned her a new, wide-flung reputation as a talented editorialist, demonstrating intelligence and adding wide journalistic credibility to her fame as singer.
Thanks to her capacity for “self-irony” that her unrivalled talent has always assured her, Mina has always laughed about, played and gambled with her imagine, varying it in a thousand ways in the media and even on her record sleeves, many of which have been placed on exhibit in Italian museums of art. Always ahead of her times, Mina remains on the cutting edge even in new technologies. In 2001 she opened the doors of her recording studios to the WWW by streaming an extended version of the videotaped session of her new album. The night the video went on-line, the server was overwhelmed with over 50,000 connection requests and the entire system crashed.
Mina is an eclectic, versatile artist completely at ease with a repertoire spanning all musical genres, all of which she has sung with masterful panache.
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