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Anna Marina Mazzini, or famous known as Mina, is a style icon of the 1960s and the best selling female artist in Italian music history. Despite having retired from the public eye at the end of the 1970s, she continues to top Italian charts with new releases and maintain her status as the ‘star of Italy’, with the public rushing to tune in to any of her few appearances on radio or social media.
The university recently hosted Dr Rachel Haworth for an online research talk about the Italian popstar, whose book ‘The Many Meanings of Mina’ considers Mina’s stardom as a product of her involvement in various types of media - including music, TV and film, advertising and even magazine writing. Despite now being considered the star of Italy, her debut in the Italian music scene was made difficult by reactions to her mixing of genres - namely Urlo, which drew on rock aspects from America, and Canzone all’Italiana, a more traditional style in Italy - and her modern style of performing. This led to her loss at the Sanremo music festival in 1960, despite being named the favourite to win. Disillusioned with the Italian music scene, she ventured abroad and went on to become a multi-national star across South America, Asia and Europe, before returning to Italy and becoming one its biggest female stars.
Megan Grimes.