Mita Medici

Mita Medici (born 20 August 1950) is an Italian actress and singer. She was sometimes credited as Patrizia Perini.

Mita Medici
Born
Patrizia Vistarini

(1950-08-20)20 August 1950
Rome, Italy
Occupation
  • Actress
  • singer

Biography

Born in Rome as Patrizia Vistarini, daughter of the actor Franco Silva, she was launched in 1965 by winning the "Miss Teenager" pageant.[1] Medici made her film debut in 1966, at 16, in Luciano Salce's How I Learned to Love Women. She is also active in television, in which she hosted shows such as Canzonissima and Sereno variabile and appeared in several TV-series.[2] She was also a singer, active between late 60's and early 80's, and her main success was the song "A ruota libera", which in 1973 ranked 10 in the Italian Hit Parade.[3]

In 1968, she was the subject of the song "Mita, Mita, Mita" by progressive rock group Le Orme.[4][5]

Discography

Studio albums
  • …A ruota libera (1973)
  • Per una volta (1975)

Singles
  • "Questo amore finito così" (1969)
  • "Un posto per me/Avventura che nasce" (1970)
  • "Un amore/Una storia come tante" (1971)
  • "Quei giorni/Se ci sta lui" (1972)
  • "Ruota libera/Cosa vuoi che ti dica" (1973)
  • "Proprio così/Tremendo" (1973)
  • "Scappa scappa/Quei giorni" (1973)
  • "Chi sono/Nave" (1975)
  • "Uomo/Trucco" (1977)
  • "Paletta paletta/Mago tango" (1981)
  • "Ma che fiesta" feat. Gianni Dei (1989)

References
  1. Jacopo Granzotto (18 February 2010). "Creò Renato Zero e Patty Pravo: il "Piper club" compie 45 anni". Il Giornale. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  2. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003.
  3. Dario Salvatori. Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989.
  4. Renato Venturelli. Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale italiano : 1930-1980. Fahrenheit 451, 1998.
  5. Oronzo Balzano. Ad gloriam. Le Orme e il beat. Enter Edizioni, 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.