Mita_Medici

Mita Medici

Mita Medici

Italian actress


Patrizia Vistarini (born 20 August 1950), known professionally as Mita Medici and sometimes credited as Patrizia Perini, is an Italian actress and singer.

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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]

Her elder sister Carla Vistarini is a song lyricist, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. She's an atheist.[6]

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)

Filmography

Films

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Television

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References

  1. Granzotto, Jacopo (18 February 2010). "Creò Renato Zero e Patty Pravo: il "Piper club" compie 45 anni". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  2. Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto, eds. (2003). Le attrici: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Dizionario del cinema italiano (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 88-8440-214-X.
  3. Salvatori, Dario (1989). Storia dell'hit parade (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 88-7605-439-1.
  4. Venturelli, Renato (1998). Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale 1930-1980 (in Italian). Rome: Fahrenheit 451. ISBN 88-86095-30-9.
  5. Balzano, Oronzo (2011). Ad gloriam: Le Orme e il beat (in Italian). foreword by Nino Smeraldi; interviews with Aldo Tagliapietra, Claudio Galieti. Cerignola: Enter. ISBN 978-88-905822-4-0.
  6. Giordano, Lucio (5 April 2024). "Quando ero bambina credevo in Dio, ma poi, a 12 anni, ho perduto la fede". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 13. pp. 78–81.

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