Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè, aka My Martini, was born in Bagnara Calabra in 1947 and began singing at the age of 13. Over the hill is the title of his first album that deals with profound and sometimes thorny themes, such as the relationship with his father, rebellion and suicide. Get to grips with the censorship imposed by Rai when it talks about sex and religious beliefs. It makes us smile to think that they even ask her to remove the word "lover" from the lyrics of a song.
Over the hill, inside Mia Martini
He knows something about censorship Really father, the story of a girl struggling with a period full of difficulties, difficulties that have never found a moral or concrete support in the father figure, who has always been absent. Her father, who has never recognized her, comes to her only to accuse her of having ruined her name.
If you are wondering how autobiographical there is in this song, it must be said that her real father recognized her. However Mia bears the signs more than the divorce of a torn relationship with the father figure. We identify ourselves as the protagonist of the song. It is she who declares it in ainterview given to Enzo tortora dated 1982.
This is where she explains how the pain of divorce boomeranged her well past the age of 11. Then the complicated context at home. Mia Martini he also recounts this speaking of his father. There is a lot of her in her lyrics. But after all, what famous artist does not put a large part of himself in his masterpieces?
Mia's voice
La demythization man it is one of the crucial points of his thought transposed into music as he testifies Minuet. Man appears to his eyes unable to love except to create wounds and is unreliable by nature. After having landed with the record producer Carlo Alberto Rossi, just Minuetto, together with Really father, Little man and other works still consecrate Mia Martini as an icon of Italian pop music of the 70s.
United in art and in life with Ivano Fossati, embarks on a sentimental relationship with the Italian singer-songwriter which will be decisive for his personal and artistic path. In 1982 he took the stage of Sanremo where he interprets And the sky does not end, written by Ivano and which is worth the Critics Award. The recognition was withdrawn only in 2008 by his sister Loredana, who has always been his accomplice together with other well-known faces of Italian music such as Renato Zero.
Mia Martini she also dealt with a dark period that put her in the pillory under the false accusation of bringing bad luck. Giving rise to such gossip did not help the singer at all, who, following a fall of a marquee and a car accident in which two members of her band lost their lives, found herself facing petty attempts at ostracism.
Mia Martini is again applauded by the audience of Sanremo in the 1989 with At least you in the universe, a piece with an intense and dramatic character. His scratchy and very expressive voice has interpreted lyrics by Lucio Battisti, Mogol, Franco Caliphan e Claudio Baglioni.
On the notes of his lyrics we celebrate the anniversary of his death on May 12, 1995. A loss that, even after 23 years away, leaves an empty space in Italian music, nostalgic for so much energy and intensity of expression.
