On May 11, 1978, Mina said her farewell on television Milleluci. The last public appearance dates back to a few months later, with the great concert at the Bussola Domani in Marina di Pietrasanta. Then nothing more. Since then the legend of Italian music has continued to sing and enchant audiences and younger singers (see the duet with Blanco on the album In love) but she never showed herself again on stage (despite numerous attempts to bring it back to you). Anna Maria Mazzini, the Tiger of Cremona, 84 years old turned March 25, she has been an “invisible” woman since the end of the Seventies. She who lives in Lugano, Switzerland, col second husband: The Cremonese cardiac surgeon Eugenio Quaini. Mina found Eugenio, a long-time friend, just as he announced his retirement from the stage. After many years together, the two do they married in Lugano on 10 January 2006. Obviously a very secret wedding, but for a moment – given the important occasion – a chink opened in the barrier of confidentiality that the artist has built around himself over the last fifty years: it was Mina herself who broke the news on Vanity Fairwhere at the time he had a mail column with readers.
Quaini has been in Mina's life for almost fifty years. But in the artist's past there are other great loves. The one that caused the most sensation dates back to 1962. The singer he was only 22 years old when, at a dinner with mutual friends, met the twenty-six year old actor Corrado Pani, pupil of Luchino Visconti. A bolt of lightning struck them both. Him though he was married since 1959 with the actress Renata Monteduro: the two had been separated in fact for some time, but since divorce had not yet been introduced in Italy on the new couple the charge of concubinage was pending. If Mina and Corrado had lived together in the same house they would have been condemned, so the two decided to live in a hotel. They were not easy months: «Living in a hotel is humiliating», the singer confessed in an interview with Oriana Fallaci. «Many unmarried people live in the same house. We can't: we would end up in jail. My God, I say. If I broke up a family, I would understand. But everything was already broken before I arrived. Corrado and his wife had been living apart for a year, they had already started the cancellation.” On 18 April 1963, at the Mangiagalli Clinic in Milan, the fruit of that love was born: Maximilian. For that motherhood she Mina paid a very dear price: for a good part of public opinion she officially became a “sinner” and Rai kept her away for two years. Years later the artist would say that when she took the pram out with Paciighino, the nickname she had given her son, if someone approached her to ask for an autograph she was always afraid that they would say something bad to her, or that they might ask her indiscreet questions. As if that wasn't enough, due to the work commitments of both and the consequent long periods of distance, the overwhelming story between Corrado and Mina in 1967 was already a dry river. AND the two said goodbye.
After Pani in the artist's life came the composer Augusto Martelli. With him, who had arranged the piece for her The man for me, they began a coexistence that didn't last long. Two years later Mina actually met the journalist Virgilio Crocco, and it was love at first sight. On 25 February 1970 in Trevignano Romano, on Lake Bracciano, the singer and Crocco get married, but mutual professional commitments separated them from the first weeks of their wedding. The two were already separated when on 11 November 1971, again at the Mangiagalli clinic in Milan, Mina gave birth to her second daughter Benedetta. Despite the end of their romantic relationship, the artist and the journalist remained friends until his premature death in 1973, which occurred under mysterious circumstances while he was in Wisconsin for an investigation.
After the birth of her daughter Benedetta, Mina met Alfredo CerrutiNeapolitan record producer and founder of Squalor. Another love at first sight. The two tried to keep the spotlight as far away from the relationship as possible, without success: the paparazzi gave them no respite. It was impossible for them to go to a hotel without being discovered, so their alcove became a fairly austere studio apartment in via Poerio in Milan. After three years, even that hidden and protected love (the two didn't even talk about it with their friends) came to an end. And for Mina Alfredo it was her last love before meeting her current husband, the surgeon from Brescia Eugenio Quaini.
Source: Vanity Fair
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