Farewell to Milva, the “Red” of Italian music

Milva is dead: Ilva Maria Biolcati. The “Red” of Italian music had 82 years old and she died in her home in Milan: next to her, her daughter, Martina Corgnati, art critic and the secretary Edith. The historic voice of Italian music, unforgettable red hair, had been ill for some time.

She herself, in 2010, after releasing the third album I don’t know any Patrizio, produced for her by Franco Battiato, had told on social media what she was experiencing: “After fifty-two years of uninterrupted activity, thousands of concerts and theatrical performances on the stages of a good half of the planet, after a hundred albums recorded in at least seven languages different, I decided to put a stop to my career as a live performer.

I was working on the album when I felt terrible, later discovering it was due to various pathologies, so I was hospitalized. I have lost the use of my legs and my memory. I left the clinic and recovered everything, but I also put a strain on my health because of my career. For years I haven’t had any vacation days, ever. And my body presented the bill to me at 71. “

A career on the biggest national and international stages, known all over the world as an author (173 albums produced) and actress (she acted in nine languages). Together with Mina and Ornella Vanoni she has been the protagonist of Italian music since the 1960s.

Recently, Milva had returned to telling herself, after receiving the dose of the coronavirus vaccine. “I vaccinate myself because I care about my life and the life of others”, he wrote on his Facebook page. «You do it too. We need to get back to life as before, and to hug our loved ones. All of us together can manage to defeat this virus ». After the announcement of the disease 11 years ago, Milva had remained suspended, as only happens to authentic ones, in the collective memory, in the affection of her public, in a rarefied area poised between the presence of her work and the sad omen of absence.

The Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, he remembers it like this: «One of the most intense interpreters of Italian song. His voice has aroused deep emotions over entire generations. A great Italian, an artist who, starting from her beloved land, has trod the international stages, making her success global and raising the name of her country. Farewell to the panther of Goro ».

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