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The Collection 3.0
''The Collection 3.0'' is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina (Italian singer), Mina, released on 31 March 2015 by Warner Music Italy. Overview After the purchase of EMI, the label Warner Music Italy also acquired the rights to the catalog of Mina's songs. The success of the last two parts of ''The Platinum Collection (Mina album), The Platinum Collection'' prompted the label to release another one, which is why it is called ''The Collection 3.0''. The compilation consists of three discs, each with 18 tracks. The album contains almost all the iconic hits of the singer from different periods of her career. Some of the songs were presented in an updated version, such as "Città vuota, Città vuota (It's A Lonely Town)" or "Il cielo in una stanza (song), Il cielo in una stanza". Duet versions of some songs were also included on the album. Track listing Charts Certifications and sales References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Collection 3.0 2015 compilation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina (Italian Singer)
Mina Anna Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an Feminism, emancipated woman. In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her the most versatile pop singer in Music of Italy, Italian music. With over 150 million records sold worldwide, she is List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists, the best-selling Italian musical artist, as well as one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Mina dominated the country's charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored Mina discography, 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting. Battisti released 18 studio albums from 1969 to 1994, with a significant portion of this catalogue translated into Spanish (various albums), English (one album), French (two albums), and German (one album). He was known to be an extremely reserved artist, performing only a small number of live concerts during his career. In 1978 he announced that he would speak to the public only through his musical work, limiting himself to the recording of studio albums and disappearing from the public scene. Biography Musician and composer Battisti was born in Poggio Bustone, a small town in the province of Rieti (northern Lazio), and moved with his family to Rome in 1950. A self-taught guitarist, Battisti made his debut as musician in the 1960s, performing in local bands in Rome, Naples and late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristiano Malgioglio
Giuseppe Cristiano Malgioglio (; born 23 April 1945) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and television personality. Over the course of his career, he published thirty studio albums, being appreciated as a songwriter in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting in the 2000s, he also launched a successful television career, in various roles such as commentator, contestant, and host of TV programs, both on Rai and Mediaset. Biography Born in Ramacca, Catania, Malgioglio obtained his first contract with a record label, Durium, thanks to the efforts of Fabrizio De André. In 1974 he composed Iva Zanicchi's song "Ciao cara come stai?" ("Hi darling, How Are You?"), which won the Sanremo Music Festival. In 1975 he had his most significant success as songwriter with Mina's "L'importante è finire" ("What Matters Is to finish"). In the same period he became a collaborator of Roberto Carlos, dealing with the Italian lyrics of his songs. He composed songs for, among others, Adriano Celentano, Rita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'importante è Finire
"L'importante è finire" () is a song recorded by Italian singer Mina for her 1975 album ''La Mina''. The song was written by and Cristiano Malgioglio. Overview The song became the first and only single from the album. Immediately after its release, it was censored and banned from central radio and television because of its sexual overtones. Nevertheless, the song became commercially successful, reaching the second place in the chart, where it spent seven weeks in a row – "Sabato pomeriggio" by Claudio Baglioni did not miss her on the first place, – in total, the song spent 31 weeks there. The song "Quando mi svegliai" was chosen as the B-side (words by Daniele Pace, music by Mario Panzeri and Corrado Conti). Pino Presti's arrangement, still considered in the 2020s to be current and taken as a model by the latest generation of artists such as Marracash, is characterized by a slow Bossa nova rhythm, a bassline with shades of funk, the percussive supports of the Hammond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Shuman
Mortimer Shuman (12 November 1938 – 2 November 1991) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including " Viva Las Vegas". He also wrote and sang many songs in French, such as "Le Lac Majeur", "Papa-Tango-Charly", "Sha Mi Sha", "Un Été de Porcelaine", and "Brooklyn by the Sea" which became hits in France and several other European countries. Life and career Shuman was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, of Polish Jewish immigrants and went to Abraham Lincoln High School, subsequently studying music at the New York Conservatory. He became a fan of R&B music and after he met Doc Pomus the two teamed up to compose for Aldon Music at offices in New York City's Brill Building. Their songwriting collaboration saw Pomus write the lyrics and Shuman the melody, although occasionally each worked on both. Their compositions would be recorded by artists such as Dion, The Flamingos, Andy Williams, Bobby D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Pomus
Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012). Early life Jerome Solon Felder was born on June 27, 1925, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of British born Jewish immigrants. Having contracted polio as a boy, he was in an iron lung for a year, and walked with the aid of crutches. Later, due to post-polio syndrome exacerbated by an accident, Felder relied on a wheelchair. Pomus was homeschooled for much of elementary and junior high school. He had a high IQ, and excelled at the insult challenge among teens and young men, " playing the dozens". He also was facile at creating his own lyrics for blues songs of the day. He became a fan of the blues after hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shel Shapiro
The Rokes were a pop rock band formed in 1963 in Italy by English expatriates. Their most successful songs included "Piangi con me", the original version of " Let's Live for Today", a US hit when covered by The Grass Roots; and "Che colpa abbiamo noi", an Italian-language version of "Cheryl's Going Home" by Bob Lind. History Norman David "Shel" Shapiro (born 16 August 1943, Stanmore, Middlesex) began performing in London, England, as a guitarist and singer with rock and roll band Rob Storm & the Whispers. After a spell playing in Gene Vincent's backing band during a tour of Great Britain in 1959, Shapiro decided to form his own band, The Shel Carson Combo, with guitarist Vic Briggs (14 February 1945, Twickenham, Middlesex – 25 June 2021), drummer Mike Shepstone (born 29 March 1943, Weymouth, Dorset), and bassist Bobby Posner (born 6 May 1945, Edgware, Middlesex). The band performed rhythm and blues in clubs around London and had regular shows at American base camps ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Lo Vecchio
Andrea Lo Vecchio (7 October 1942 – 17 February 2021) was an Italian composer, lyricist, record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. Life and career Born in Milan, Lo Vecchio started his career in 1962, performing as a singer-songwriter and a guitarist in local music halls and clubs. In 1963 he won a contest for new artists and subsequently got a contract with CBS.Enzo Giannelli; Lalla Cantore. "Lo Vecchio, Andrea". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. In 1964 Lo Vecchio made his professional debut as a songwriter with the song "Era troppo bello", which was performed by Wilma Goich and won the . The same year he founded a cabaret in his hometown, "Le Clochard", where performed notable artists such as Bruno Lauzi, Gufi and Cochi e Renato. In 1966 he sold the cabaret and founded the nightclub "Student's Club"; the same year he started a long and fruitful collaboration as a songwriter with Roberto Vecchioni. In 1967 he par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E Poi
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''e'' (pronounced ); plural ''es'', ''Es'', or ''E's''. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long E" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter '' hê'', which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (''hillul'', 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Canfora
Bruno Canfora (; 6 November 1924 – 4 August 2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music arranger. Life and career Born in Milan, Canfora studied piano at an early age, then studied oboe at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. During the Second World War, he played several concerts with his group in Trieste. After the war, he moved to Turin and became conductor of the Castellino Danze Orchestra. Besides having composed scores for television programs and films, Canfora is known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed songs like "Brava", "Un bacio è troppo poco", " Mi sei scoppiato dentro il cuore", "Sono come tu mi vuoi" and " Vorrei che fosse amore" (the latter two were also translated into other languages like Spanish, the latter also in French). In the 60's he toured with Mina in Japan and wrote a hit for her in that country: "Anata To Watashi". He also composed songs for Rita Pavone, Ornella Vanoni, Shir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Amurri
Antonio Amurri (28 June 1925 – 18 December 1992) was an Italian author, radio and television writer and lyricist. Born in Ancona, Amurri was author of some of the most popular RAI variety shows, such as '' Canzonissima'', ''Gran Varietà'', '' Fantastico'' and '' Studio Uno''. He was also author of fourteen books, several of them best sellers, which were mainly collections of short stories consisting of satirical portraits of collapsing family groups.Enrico Malato. ''Storia della letteratura italiana''. Volume 9. Salerno, 2000. p. 409. . Amurri was the father of the television writer Valentina Amurri and of the film director Franco Amurri Franco Amurri (born 12 September 1958) is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for directing films such as '' Da grande'', which inspired the Tom Hanks film ''Big'', '' Monkey Trouble'' and '' Flashback''. His father w ...; he was also the paternal grandfather of American actress Eva Amurri. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vorrei Che Fosse Amore
"Vorrei che fosse amore" () is a song written by Antonio Amurri and Bruno Canfora. Italian singer Mina recorded it in 1968 as the final theme of the musical TV show '' Canzonissima''. The song was later included on her album '' Canzonissima '68'', and was also released as a single, reaching number 9 on the Italian chart. According to ''Cash Box'' magazine, it was ranked 77th on the list of the best-selling singles in Italy between July 1968 and July 1969. The following year, the song was re-recorded by Mina in French under the title "Si..." and released as a single. To promote this publication, at the end of April 1969, the singer went to Paris, where she performed the song on local television. Mina also recorded an English version called "More Than Strangers", which was released as a single and later included on the album of the same name distributed in the USA. Track listing ;7" single (Italy) :A. "Vorrei che fosse amore" (Antonio Amurri, Bruno Canfora) – 2:26 :B. "Caro" (Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
