Mina

If we criticize Mina, then we save no one. She, who has interpreted and made many of the most beautiful Italian songs her own, has no other colleague who boasts a similar number of musical emblems. From the whole decade of the sixties, to the songs written for her by Battisti in the early seventies, to the wonderful "Ancora Ancora Ancora" of '78, then through the eighties with less notable albums but always of quality and infinite class. She gave her best in the pieces specifically written for her, but she erred in presumption by wanting to redo songs recorded by others that are irreplaceable, like those of the Beatles. Songs that are always well-crafted in arrangements and in the choice of musicians. And what to say about Mina herself? The most sensual and representative voice of Italian pop music. A character full of herself, yet very self-aware and of above-average intelligence. She retired following the example of Battisti, whom she considered the greatest of all. She spared herself a ridiculous pension like those of old television mummies, now caricatures of themselves. She has been releasing records for almost seventy years; perhaps, however, in her case, the individual songs are more important than the entire albums. Verse-bridge in crescendo-explosive chorus —> unbeatable. Ladies and gentlemen, the Tiger of Cremona: Mina.