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(For information on the Icelandic quartet formerly called Amína, please see Amiina.)

Amina can refer to either of two artists:

1) The Tunisian singer Amina Annabi, known for her East-meets-West world music and for her appearance in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest.

2) The Spanish flamenco singer Amina (born María Gracia Ortiz Vázquez), active in the 1960s and 1970s.

Amina Annabi was born in Tunisia, but moved to France in 1975 when she was 12. Her musical career began in the 1980s as a rapper, and recorded singles with early hip-hop superstars Afrika Bambaata and Grandmaster Flash.

She recorded her debut album, Yalil, in 1990. The album featured the sexy single “Belly Dance,” which had some commercial success. In 1991, she was declared the joint winner of the Eurovision Song Contest for the song “Le Dernier Qui A Parle,” though she was eventually declared the runner-up. Still, this exposure propelled her to stardom in the burgeoning world music fusion market.

Her second album, Wa Di Ye (Love is Unique), was released in 1992. It was not until 1999 that her third album Annabi hit the shelves. Amina has an acting career along with her singing career, and has appeared in a number of movies.

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Heilig_Zorn wrote:
last week

Amina is not Amiina.

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SandsDunes wrote:
last month

Is she awesome or is she awesome?

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kjetilho wrote:
May 2009

xneogenicx: that's very inconsiderate for us Amina fans. learn to spell the name of your band correctly!

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xneogenicx wrote:
March 2009

Choose "Amina should link to Amiina" to get the autocorrection working!

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VGoRiLLaZ wrote:
December 2008

Yeah, and similar artist is MUM /should be mùm// ^^

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CassMyers wrote:
November 2008

It seems that the artists that are tagged inaccurately always have more music on the pages with the wrong name. Haha.

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AlmandinaPluvia wrote:
October 2008

i love this

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dariuzzzz wrote:
October 2008

Amiina... No Amina!!!

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lagginswag wrote:
September 2008

amiina owns. sigur ros is becoming WAYYY to overrated. soon to be the next mogwai or mum. LOLZORZ

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Atrosincity wrote:
September 2008

Can someone point me where i can download Atame ? i m looking for it since ages , very beautifull track!

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porphura wrote:
September 2008

melodious~

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Tj_Kitsune wrote:
September 2008

Am(ii)na! plz!!!!!!!

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demaupin wrote:
September 2008

I'm mystified as to why people are still tagging Amiina songs as Amina; isn't it correct that they were never "Amina" but "Amína" anyways? And as per usual, last.fm streaming tracks are probably the biggest contributor to the mistagging problem :\ --------- Both artists are awesome, btw :)

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--irma-- wrote:
July 2008

viewing the title "grandeur" could be both of them! hahaha!!

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nodoubt9203 wrote:
June 2008

i'm pretty sure it'd be french Amina, cause the title is in french.

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vol_an wrote:
June 2008

"bienvenue dans le meilleur des mondes" from soundtrack of "99 francs" - icelandic Amiina or french Amina?

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pjr2007 wrote:
May 2008

she's fab and when you hear the song which robbed her of a Eurovision win it's even more disgusting she didn't win

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ordinaryusacma wrote:
March 2008

amiina seviyim! keh keh

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secretofsteve wrote:
January 2008

thank god for something different... was looking for amiina, but amina rocks.

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inluto wrote:
November 2007

nice song´s

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