Mita Medici

Patrizia Vistarini (born 20 August 1950), known professionally as Mita Medici and sometimes credited as Patrizia Perini, is an Italian actress and singer. Born in Rome as Patrizia Vistarini, daughter of the actor Franco Silva, she was launched in 1965 by winning the "Miss Teenager" pageant. Medici made her film debut in 1966, at 16, in Luciano Salce's How I Learned to Love Women. She is also active in television, in which she hosted shows such as Canzonissima and Sereno variabile and appeared in several TV-series. She was also a singer, active between late 60's and early 80's, and her main success was the song "A ruota libera", which in 1973 ranked 10 in the Italian Hit Parade.In 1968, she was the subject of the song "Mita, Mita, Mita" by progressive rock group Le Orme.Her elder sister Carla Vistarini is a song lyricist, novelist, playwright and scriptwriter.