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Italy’s queen of song, Mina, salutes ‘angel’ Whitney Houston

ByGramilano Reading Time: 1 minute

MinaItalian music legend has saluted late soul-pop superstar Whitney Houston as an “angel” who invented a new way of singing. The reclusive star who writes a weekly column for ‘s said,

I want to keep her in my memory as I see her: tall, beautiful, talented beyond measure. I don’t know much about her life. But I know everything about her music. An angel who sings like that should have had something that sometimes seems an unattainable prize: a self-aware existence, a happy life.

“She really invented a way of singing, by no means easy, that they all tried to imitate. She became the touchstone, the litmus test, the model. Untouchable.”

Mina, 71, who bewitched audiences in the 1960 and ’70s and has released sporadic recordings since, is reckoned by many the finest female pop singer Italy has produced. Louis Armstrong once called her ”the greatest white singer in the world”.

via ANSA.it

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Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.

Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.

He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.

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