Few artists have shaped Italian music as profoundly as Mina. Known simply by her first name, she emerged in the late 1950s and quickly became one of the most powerful and recognisable voices not just in Italy but Europe, too. But Mina was never just a singer. She was a phenomenon – one who changed how the Bel Paese listened to music, how women appeared on television, and how a pop star could command the public imagination.