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Genre
Italian pop and chanson. The double album covers a broad expressive range: Frutta e verdura draws on a diverse roster of songwriters and styles, while Amanti di valore is a thematically unified work devoted entirely to the subject of love and eroticism, built on the poetry of Franco Califano and the music of Carlo Pes.
Release
Originally released on October 23, 1973, by PDU, as an inseparable double album. The two LPs were subsequently made available separately.
Production
Both albums were arranged primarily by Pino Presti, who served as the dominant arranger and conductor for Mina throughout the 1970s. The music of Amanti di valore was composed and arranged by Carlo Pes, alongside Pino Presti. Both albums were recorded at La Basilica, Milan, Italy.
Reception
The double album was a major commercial success in Italy, spending eight consecutive weeks at the top of the Italian chart. The combined release came close to one million copies sold. Frutta e verdura yielded three successful singles, with "E poi..." reaching number one on the Italian singles chart. The more adventurous Amanti di valore, released without singles, was received as an artistically bolder work and is regarded by critics as among the most mature and refined recordings of Mina's career.
Mina
Mina (born Anna Maria Mazzini on March 25, 1940, in Busto Arsizio) is widely regarded as the greatest Italian popular singer of the twentieth century. She made her debut in 1958 and rose rapidly to national fame through her powerful voice, becoming a fixture of Italian broadcasting in the 1960s. In 1967 she founded her own independent label, PDU, in Lugano, Switzerland, giving her full artistic control over her recordings. After withdrawing from live performance and television in 1978, she continued to release studio albums at a prolific rate, with a discography exceeding 150 million records sold worldwide. She was awarded the Targa Tenco and the title of Grande Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, and remains, even in her absence from the stage, a defining figure of Italian popular culture.
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