1. Mina, stage name of Mina… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least 8 artists named Mina:
1. Mina, stage name of Mina Anna Mazzini (March 25, 1940, Busto Arsizio, Province of Varese), is an Italian singer. She lives in Switzerland. Although born in a small town of Lombardy, she grew up in Cremona city: where her nickname of "Cremona Tiger" was given to her by her friend, the journalist Natalia Aspesi.
She began her career singing pop songs with a "jazzy" feel in the late 1950s. Her first stage name used to be Baby Gate. After a 1958 concert at La Bussola, a nightclub on the Versilia famous for hosting artists such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, she became a national star in Italy. Her first television appearance was in 1959. In the following two years she took part in the Sanremo Music Festival.
In 1963 her TV and radio career for Rai came to an end, as she refused to hide the fact she was pregnant (she had a relationship with actor Corrado Pani, who was married to Renata Monteduro). However, her unscathed appeal with the audience later made Rai's functionaries call her back. Mina subsequently appeared in numerous TV shows, mostly as a hostess, during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Mina gained also wide popularity abroad, singing also in French, German, Turkish and Japanese. In 1966 she moved her residence to Lugano, Switzerland, obtaining Swiss citizenship in 1989. Her most famous songs were written by the prolific duo Mogol-Battisti. It was Lucio Battisti who wrote the music for many of her hits including, "Amor mio", "Io e te da soli" and "Insieme".
After retiring from public appearances by the end of 1978 she continued to release albums on a yearly basis, usually featured on the top 10 charts in Italy with the new single releases. Recent releases include duets with Fabrizio de André and Adriano Celentano.
2. Mina was an instrumental post-disco band from Germany. They've had two albums released and a remix compilation before splitting up for good.
3. MiNa (Switzerland), a side project of Luk Zimmermann and Jaël Krebs, both members of Lunik. They released the album Playground Princess (2007).
4. Mina (aka "Shin Mina") is a Korean singer who was first a back-dancer for various Korean Pop Artists (Park Jin-Young, and Park Ji-Yoon to name a few). She initially found instant fame as the "World Cup Girl", as photographers noticed her beauty and immediately became the center of attention world-wide over-night. Pictures of her with the "Be The Reds!" bandanna around her chest and the Korean flag used as a skirt were beamed around the world, and she received her 15 minutes of fame. Desiring to elongate that fame, she quickly signed a record deal with J-Entercom Entertainment (labelmates include WAX, JADU, Kim Gun-Mo, Lee Ssang, and Double K) and released her first album, Rendezvous, in the fall of 2002. Although going for the sexy image that was popular at the time (with the single "전화받어" (Answer The Phone) (a cover of a K.I.S.S. song, who were also signed to the label before their break-up), the album failed to sell many copies. She quickly disappeared from the industry but returned in the summer of 2004 with her second album Re:turn 2 Mina. This album proved to be a bit more popular, as her single "돌아" (Turn) caught the attention of the Korean public; it was also supported with live-vocal performances. (JiNi, the main singer from K.I.S.S., contributed uncredited vocals to Mina's album.[citation needed])
Due to internal affairs with J-Entercom Entertainment[citation needed], Mina then left her first record company, and signed with EMI Korea for her third album. Her third album Kiss Kiss came in the fall of 2005 with an even sexier image. Mina trained in Europe in order to belly dance and made her music video for her title track there as well. The cover of the Turkish song, though, failed badly, with the album selling less than 10 000 copies. She has since released an English single for the European market, even going as far as making a MySpace page for the single. However, she has remained in Korea and promoted her poorly-received last single Fly High during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, a tribute to the competition that started her career. At the time, she also released a nude photo album to "inspire" the Korean athletes (note: contains censored picture).
Her fourth album was released in July 2007. Her first single, "Look", features Ak'sent. Because of her relatively late debut, she initially claimed that she was born in 1978. As rumours of her real age began to spread, she eventually admitted that she was born in 1972 and apologized for lying about it for so long.
5. Mina is a German singer.
6. Mina is a Lithuanian rapper.
7. Mina (酒井美直, Mina Sakai) is a Japanese musician and singer. At age 16, she was inspired by a music and dance performance of native Canadians to take pride in her Ainu heritage, and formed the group Ainu Rebels, which mixed traditional Ainu song/dance/fashion with hip-hop elements, in 2006. In 2009, she collaborated with composer Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦正志) to perform vocals for the Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack, and since 2011 has been recording and touring with Hamauzu's band IMERUAT (meaning "lightning" in the Ainu language and possibly inspired by the main character of Final Fantasy XIII) as the vocalist and player of traditional instruments.
8.Mina (Greek : Μίνα Γιαννοπούλου) is a greek singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Her first contact with music was at the age of 5 when she started piano lessons and music theory. In her tweens she attended a music-oriented High School where she had the chance to discover more musical instruments as well as to play and sing in ensembles of various styles from folk/traditional to European Classical. She studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue. Her passion and direction towards singing however came as a byproduct of her decision to take formal vocal lessons at her late teens.A few years later she got her singing diploma while at the same time working at the National Opera as a choirist (Operette).
During her vocal training, she studied under important Opera singers/teachers such as Dimitri Kavrakos, Aris Christofellis, Cheryl Studer, Christian Rousset and Natalie Karl.
Her classical training aside, Mina was always into rock and metal music so she constantly found herself treading between those two seemingly opposite styles which she always strived to combine; something that became a reality when she started working on more modern styles finally developing her signaturesinging technique which makes her able to deliver rich, delicate dark colored tone, jazzy, raspy, even whistle registered or full, rock, powerhouse vocals in a range of 3.5 octaves.
In 2010, Mina founded (and was the main composer and lyricist of) the band The Rain I Bleed. Their album Narcissistgot released on August 12th, 2011 by Twilight Zone Records.
After leaving The Rain I Bleed for a chance to further expand her studies in Germany and spending almost 2 years in Stuttgart studying, Mina founded a new melodic project which is soon to release its first single in January, 2014 on ML Records.
9. A Japanese doujin artist.
10. A Vietnamese singer.
11. An Ecuadorian singer.
12. An electronic dance producer from London, UK: https://minamusicuk.bandcamp.com/
13. A vocalist/producer based in Brooklyn, NY: https://listentomina.com
Emozioni
Mina Lyrics
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Un airone sopra il fiume e poi
Ritrovarsi a volare
E sdraiarsi felice sopra l'erba ad ascoltare
Un sottile dispiacere
E di notte passare con lo sguardo la collina
Per scoprire
Domandarsi perché quando cade la tristezza
In fondo al cuore
Come la neve non fa rumore
E guidare come un pazzo a fari spenti
Nella notte per vedere
Se poi è tanto difficile morire
E stringere le mani per fermare
Qualcosa che
È dentro me
Ma nella mente tua non c'è
Capire tu non puoi
Tu chiamale se vuoi
Emozioni
Tu chiamale se vuoi
Emozioni
Uscir nella brughiera di mattina
Dove non si vede a un passo
Per ritrovar se stesso
Parlar del più e del meno con un pescatore
Per ore ed ore
Per non sentir che dentro qualcosa muore
E ricoprir di terra una piantina verde
Sperando possa
Nascere un giorno una rosa rossa
E prendere a pugni un uomo solo
Perché è stato un po' scortese
Sapendo che quel che brucia non sono le offese
E chiudere gli occhi per fermare
Qualcosa che
È dentro me
Ma nella mente tua non c'è
Capire tu non puoi
Tu chiamale se vuoi
Emozioni
Tu chiamale se vuoi
Emozioni
The lyrics of Mina's song "Emozioni" speak of the different ways in which humans experience and cope with emotions. The first verse describes the feeling of watching a heron fly and then lying happily on the grass, listening to a small sadness in the background. The next part talks about looking at hills at night, trying to find where the sun goes to sleep, and wondering why sadness falls deep in our hearts silently like snow.
The second verse talks about reckless driving at night with headlights off to test if death is really as difficult as it seems. The third verse describes finding solace in nature and conversation with a fisherman, talking about nothing and everything, trying to mute the inner turmoil. The final part of the song speaks of burying a green plant in the hope that a red rose may grow someday and punching an impolite person knowing that it is not the insults that hurt but what's inside.
Overall, the lyrics of "Emozioni" are about the various ways to deal with different emotions, some of which are inexplicable while some can be released through impulsive or therapeutic actions.
Line by Line Meaning
Seguir con gli occhi
Looking intently with your eyes
Un airone sopra il fiume e poi
Observing a heron above the river and then
Ritrovarsi a volare
Finding yourself flying
E sdraiarsi felice sopra l'erba ad ascoltare
Lying down happily on the grass and listening
Un sottile dispiacere
A slight feeling of sadness
E di notte passare con lo sguardo la collina
Passing by the hill with your eyes at night
Per scoprire
To discover
Dove il sole va a dormire
Where the sun goes to sleep
Domandarsi perché quando cade la tristezza
Asking yourself why sadness falls
In fondo al cuore
Deep in the heart
Come la neve non fa rumore
Like snow makes no sound
E guidare come un pazzo a fari spenti
Driving like a crazy person with the lights turned off
Nella notte per vedere
In the night to see
Se poi è tanto difficile morire
If it's really so hard to die
E stringere le mani per fermare
Clasping your hands to stop
Qualcosa che
Something that
È dentro me
Is inside me
Ma nella mente tua non c'è
But it's not in your mind
Capire tu non puoi
You can't understand
Tu chiamale se vuoi
Call them what you will
Emozioni
Emotions
Uscir nella brughiera di mattina
Going out in the moorland in the morning
Dove non si vede a un passo
Where you can't see a step ahead
Per ritrovar se stesso
To find oneself
Parlar del più e del meno con un pescatore
Talking about this and that with a fisherman
Per ore ed ore
For hours and hours
Per non sentir che dentro qualcosa muore
Not to feel that something inside is dying
E ricoprir di terra una piantina verde
Covering a little green plant with earth
Sperando possa
Hoping it will
Nascere un giorno una rosa rossa
Grow a red rose one day
E prendere a pugni un uomo solo
Punching a lone man
Perché è stato un po' scortese
Because he was a little rude
Sapendo che quel che brucia non sono le offese
Knowing that what burns is not the offenses
E chiudere gli occhi per fermare
Closing your eyes to stop
Qualcosa che
Something that
È dentro me
Is inside me
Ma nella mente tua non c'è
But it's not in your mind
Capire tu non puoi
You can't understand
Tu chiamale se vuoi
Call them what you will
Emozioni
Emotions
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Lucio Battisti, Mogol
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