international artist Award, in Japan Best Album of the Year Critics Award for the album "Mina" Oscar del disco '64 Critics Award for the album "Mina" 1965 Nomination and performance at the Mostra Internazionale di Musica Leggera with "L'ultima occasione" 1966 Nomination and performance at the Mostra Internazionale di Musica Leggera with "Ta-ra-ta-ta" Gondola d'oro Award at the Mostra Internazionale di Musica Leggera 1968 Nomination and performance at the Mostra Internazionale di Musica Leggera with "Ta-ra-ta-ta" 1987 Targa Tenco in the category Performer of the Year with the album "Rane supreme" 2001 – Grand Officer Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: Awarded the second highest civil honour in Italy, by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on 1 June 2001. 2015 Ambrogino d'oro medal by the city of Milan Records The web event, live on the portal Wind, which portrays some video clips of the artist in the recording studio, has recorded over 20 million hits, and was one of the most followed of all times in Italy. She is the most charted artist in the Italian charts, and between albums and singles, she has scored 24 number one, 61 top-three, 86 top-five, 114 top-ten and 130 top-twenty, for a total of 79 albums and 71 singles in the chart. Albums: records in Italy Singles: records in Italy Personal life In her early teens, Mina was a competitive swimmer for the Canottieri Baldesio sports club in Cremona, attended by the elite of the Cremonese bourgeoisie at the time. She met her first boyfriend, a fullback for the U.S. Cremonese football club, at the swimming pool at her age of 16. Mina fell in love with actor Corrado Pani in 1962. Their relationship shocked Italian audiences as he was already married although separated from his wife. Their son, Massimiliano Pani, was born on 18 April 1963. Owing to Mina's refusal to hide the relationship, the singer was banned from performing on public Italian television or radio channels. As her record sales were unaffected and audiences demanded to see Mina on the air, RAI was forced to end the ban and let Mina return to television on 10 January 1964. Within a year, her affair with Corrado ended. Mina's brother Alfredo Mazzini died in a car accident in 1965. A year later she and her father moved to Lugano, Switzerland. Mina's intimate relationships, however, remained in Italy, as she had a brief affair