Mia Martini

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Mia Martini, Sunday Rita Adriana pseudonym Berte called Mimi (Bagnara, September 20, 1947 - Cardano al Campo, 12 May 1995), was an Italian singer; on some occasions was songwriter, writing the lyrics of some of his songs.

older sister Loredana Berte, with which it shares the day and month of birth, is considered along with Mina one of the most beautiful female voices and expressive of Italian music of the last fifty years, characterized by its being sophisticated but not cloying, and enhanced by strong intensity of interpretation. tormented woman, intense and refined interpreter, boasted a long artistic career that began in 1963, just as Mimi Berté. Record producer and author Carlo Alberto Rossi wanted her to throw like girl ye-ye; However, the success he found himself in this role, although very flattering for a novice, was short lived, and after a few years of neglect reappeared on the scene in 1971, with the new Mia Martini pseudonym.

Over the hill, his first album (considered among the best work ever made of all time), it turned out pretty cutting edge for its time, for arrangements, thematic and sang. Really hits like Father (1971), Little man, lonely woman (1972), Minuet, The Warrior (1973), Hymn (1974), Woman with you (1975), What do you want it to be ... (1976), Free, to love you (1977), consecrated it among the absolute protagonists of Italian music in the seventies, the decade in which he reached a national and international great popularity .

His records began to be regularly distributed also in countries like Spain, France, Germany and Japan, where in 1977 he took part as the only Italian representative at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, resulting overall winner with the song Portrait of woman.

In 1978 he shared the stage at the Olympia in Paris with Charles Aznavour, who chose her to a successful series of shows as a duo, it considers to be one of the very few female voices able to move him.

In the same period, after the making of the album To love, taken an artistic and sentimental relationship with the singer-songwriter Ivano Fossati, which proved decisive for his human and professional experience, in spite of a very troubled relationship. It was Fossati writing and producing the album Dance (1978), a work of great depth that marked for her significant growth, not only on a musical level; the disc was published for the first time one of his most notable performances: The construction of a love (later reused by the Fossati and other artists).

After two difficult operations on his vocal cords, which left her hoarse for a whole year later also by changing the tone, followed by a period of silence, during which Mia Martini devoted himself to writing an album from her entirely written and composed, simply titled Mimi (1981).

In 1982 he participated for the first time in the Sanremo Festival with It does not end mica the sky, one of his most popular songs, and at the same time more refined, more and signed by Ivano Fossati: for her journalists instituted in that edition of the Prize critics, now named in his name. Also in 1982 came another of his great success, of which she wrote the text: How many times, a song that gave the title to a new, lucky LP.

His artistic career and his private life, however, were marked by a series of slanders on background superstitious within the same world of entertainment, that in fact hindered and emarginarono for several years, leading to the withdrawal from the scene in the mid-eighties.

With its undisputed interpretative talent, the singer returned to reassert itself limelight with an even greater consensus : in 1989 he participated in the Sanremo Festival with the song At least you in the universe, the famous success that gave back a big popularity by pushing it to fully resume career through new album, as well as numerous concerts and television appearances. In the nineties was therefore starred in other hits such as The snowfall of '56, the men do not change (always presented in Sanremo in 1990 and 1992) and Cu 'mme, duet with Roberto Murolo which relaunched the Neapolitan song. In 1993 duet with his sister Loredana at the Sanremo Festival presenting the song We are as we are.

He died at the age of 47 in circumstances never fully clarified: was found lifeless in his home May 14, 1995, after two days of death. The successive suicide hypothesis in the following days several times have been categorically denied by the sisters.
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Geno

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Al Mondo - Mia Martini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5SG3lZdDk0

A new chapter in the musical history of Mia Martini. "To the world", as well as all the other songs on the album "Sense & nonsense" contains new sounds. The keyboards Baldan Bembo, predominant in previous discs, are supplemented here by the strings and the guitar. The same Martini contributes to the arrangements and among the musicians participating, there is a still unknown Umberto Tozzi, present in the song choruses.
The text of Louis Albertelli gives us a different protagonist: love, enriched, complete. A woman who feels alive, who understands the meaning of good and evil, of tears and happy atmosphere. The world is he, together with which life is worth living and it does not matter if you discover prisoners of each other if this imprisonment is happiness.

Well made even the entire album that gives us a Mia Martini interpretive masterpiece: "Would to God."
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Geno

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Almeno tu nell'universo - Mia Martini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5eixsg3BjI

Almeno tu nell'universo was written by Bruno Lightman and Maurizio Fabrizio in 1972 (in the same week of Little Man). Filed only in 1979, he remained unpublished for a long time, as Lightman wanted to sing it first was just Mimi. In 1989, when the search for the reference point had become an issue more deeply felt than in previous decades, the song was finally fished out and engraved by Mia Martini, who introduced her to the Sanremo Festival of that year, getting the Critics Prize and a lot of appreciation from the audience.

The lyrics of the song, written by Lightman, under the pretext of being a love letter addressed to a recipient is not specified and this unknown, it focuses on some negative aspects of contemporary society: primarily the inconsistency of the people, understood as amorphous and indistinct mass of people, but also his hypocrisy, the fact of following "blindly" fashions, from which you let 'foolishly' influence and control, and lack of a strong choice between love or hate, and therefore not credible and reliable. The speaker of the part of the song states that the recipient is the only person 'universe' to be different from the people (that is better, but in the sense that it can not be worse than this). If you consider the recipient as imaginary or nonexistent, the lyrics become a resigned and disconsolate observation of reality. To be fair in a few sentences of text ( "you know the people are crazy perhaps too dissatisfied", "You know, people are alone, how can she consoles") trying to even venture the cause of the behavior of people and then the need to seek a solution to this loss, both having present other values ​​as a guide of life, is trying to stay close to reality and then deal with it in a very sincere way ( "not make up my mind to be lost in conjectures, in fears, unnecessarily and then not at all ").
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Geno

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Piccolo Uomo - Mia Martini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P216eEqRCQg

Piccolo Uomo is a single Mia Martini published in 1972, from the album In the world, one thing.

It is the first recording of the disks Martini of Milan Memories, where she had moved to follow the manager Alberigo Crocetta, who in 1970 had re-introduced in the music.

When Alberigo Crocetta left RCA and arrives at Milan Memories, Mia Martini decided to follow him, managing to affect Little man, written by Bruno Lightman and Michelangelo La Bionda, music by Dario Baldan Bembo (and Leonardo Rich, initially uncredited). At first Baldan Bembo tried to prevent that the song was being entrusted to Martini, who was an artist just rookie. Intended, in fact, the Chameleons, the piece was instead by Mia Martini Pop Festival, Beat, Western Express London, May 26, 1972.

It was also proposed to a disc for the summer, where, however, was inexplicably rejected; He was finally presented to Cantagiro and Festivalbar, where Mia Martini got his first win.

The immediate success coincided with the participation in the most important musical broadcasts, which now Music, No Network, Who knows who knows. The 45s reached the first positions of the hit-parade, and Mia Martini earned his first gold disc for sales (it will be the 15th most successful single in 1972).

The singer then reinterpreted the song in 1994, inside of his latest album, The music turns me around.

In 2010, Nathalie has made a cover, published in her EP on tiptoe.
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