On March 25, Mina turned eighty. With her video dedicated to her first recording success, "Il cielo in una stanza" recorded at the age of just twenty on a text by Gino Paoli, the Portale della Canzone Italiana celebrates the birthday of this extraordinary artist a few days later, retracing her success with the words of Paolo Prato available on the MiBACT YouTube channel:
where since the beginning of the coronavirus emergency, museums, archaeological parks and autonomous state institutes have been providing audiovisual contributions of all kinds to allow people to continue enjoying the national cultural heritage.
The 45 rpm "Il cielo in una stanza" was released in June 1969 and was the first major recording hit of the "Tigre di Cremona": it was his fifth recording to enter the charts, where he excelled for fifteen weeks and then remained there for over six months . “This song – as Paolo Prato recalls in the video – contains some images which, by definitely forcing their meaning, could adapt to these times of home isolation. Mina's repertoire has a sacred aura that makes it untouchable. Like a Midas king of song, everything she sang turned to gold. It is no coincidence that this is the song that made Paoli's career take off, starting the season of songwriters ".
With this initiative the Mibact, through a choral commitment of all its institutes, thus shows not only what is usually accessible to the public, but also the behind-the-scenes of cultural heritage with the numerous professionals who deal with conservation, protection, enhancement . Through the website and its social profiles on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, the Ministry relaunches the numerous digital initiatives underway.
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