Mina 25

Mina 25 (or simply 25) is double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1983 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana.

Overview
The celebration of the anniversary of Mina's career coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the RAI broadcasting company, which offered the singer a collaboration. Mina's songs from this album, as well as her comments, were used as the soundtrack to Paolo Frajese's Trent'anni della nostra storia (Thirty Years of Our History). The first issue of the program covered the history of the channel from 1945 to 1955, so the singer recorded songs from this period. This was the first such work, and three more albums will be released in the following years: Catene (1984), Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula... (1985) and Sì, buana (1986).

The song Verde luna had already been included on the album Salomè and was re-recorded for this album.

To support the album, the single "Devi dirmi di sì" was released with the song "La controsamba" on the b-side. The song was a success with listeners and reached the 7th place in the singles chart. The album itself debuted at the twenty-second position on the weekly albums chart, and in the fourth week of its stay reached the peak eighth position. In total, the album spent a total of 14 weeks there.

Critical reception
Christian Calabrese from Musica e dischi gave a positive assessment of the album, calling the songs very beautiful, mostly because of the authors with whom Mina has been collaborating for a long time and who know her style.

Personnel

 * Mina – vocals


 * Victor Bach – arrangement (A1–B6), strings, wind instruments, keyboard
 * Massimiliano Pani – arrangement (C1), background vocals
 * Celso Valli – arrangement (C2, C3, C5–D3), keyboard
 * Mario Robbiani – arrangement (C4, D4), strings, keyboard
 * Piero Cassano – background vocals
 * Lella Esposito – background vocals
 * Giulia Fasolino – background vocals
 * Gianni Ferrio – background vocals
 * Naimy Hackett – background vocals
 * Germano Melotti – background vocals
 * Silvio Pozzoli – background vocals
 * Wanda Radicchi – background vocals
 * Gigi Cappellotto – bass
 * Paolo Gianolio – bass
 * Massimo Moriconi – bass
 * Hugo Heredia – clarinet
 * Paolo Tomelleri – clarinet
 * Ellade Bandini – drums, percussion
 * Bruno Bergonzi – drums
 * Rolando Ceragioli – drums
 * Flaviano Cuffari – drums
 * Walter Scebran – drums, percussion
 * Sergio Farina – guitar
 * Angel "Pato" Garcia – guitar
 * Paolo Gianolio – guitar
 * Ernesto Massimo Verardi – guitar
 * Bruno De Filippi – harmonica
 * Simonne Sporck – harp
 * Maurizio Preti – percussion
 * Aldo Banfi – synthesizer