Mia Martini - Rapsodia (Italy 1992)

[PopLife]

Another staple on my ESC250. Amazing song and should clearly have won, even if another 90s RAI hosting would have been too much so soon after Toto. I love how she sounds like she'd smoked a pack of cigarettes prior to the performance and still gives me chills with every note. RIP Mia Martini, gone but never forgotten. She also won the revote of the 1992 #EurovisionAgain during lockdown in 2021, deservedly so btw.

 

[Penelope]

Actually ASTONISHING. A total twelve!

 

[Penelope]

I seem to recall it being a BIT MUCH for @Tetris-Rock who was lugging a suitcase in the rain when this came on during last year's ESC250. One can only IMAGINE!

 

[ButterTart]

Absolutely brilliant song. It's lovely to remember that Italy once succeeded on quality not reputation.

The cheese grater vocals

 

[win_the_game]

A twelve from me. It’s gorgeous.

And did we know Mia was the older sister of our very own Loredana?

 

[VoR]

A twelve from me. It’s gorgeous.

And did we know Mia was the older sister of our very own Loredana?

Did their parents lubricate with nicotine tar?

 

[Tetris-Rock]

I seem to recall it being a BIT MUCH for @Tetris-Rock who was lugging a suitcase in the rain when this came on during last year's ESC250. One can only IMAGINE!

I genuinely don’t remember this beyond the rain and the suitcase but ENTIRELY BELIEVABLE.

 

[Penelope]

Mia Martini's Wikipedia page is QUITE the read As if she got blackballed from the Italian music industry for a decade because of a superstition that she was BAD LUCK!

 

[Penelope]

Absolutely making up a superstition that @Suomi is bad luck to get him blackballed from the music industry (again)

 

[win_the_game]

Pretty sure the rumours of her being jinxed were started by an ex-manager after she refused to work with him. So she was a victim of rampant misogyny just like @Suomi.