Maria Ilva Biolcati Commander OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [maˈriːa ilˈva bjolˈkaːti]; born 17 July 1939), known as Milva, is an Italian singer, stage and film actress, and television personality. She is also known as "La Rossa", (Italian for "The Redhead"), due to the characteristic colour of her hair, and additionally as "The Panther of Goro", which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female singers of the 1960s, combining the names of animals and the singers' birth places. Popular in Italy and abroad, she has performed on musical and theatrical stages the world over, and has received popular acclaim in her native Italy, and particularly in Germany where she has often participated in musical events and televised musical programmes. She has also re