Mita Medici

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

Mita Medici
Born
Patrizia Vistarini

(1950-08-20)20 August 1950
Rome, Italy
OccupationSinger, actress, TV personality

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]

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.
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