Annalisa Minetti (born 27 December 1976 in Rho) is an Italian singer, politician, Paralympic athlete, Olympic champion and Sanremo Festival winner.

[3] Minetti was a beauty pageant contestant in the 1997 edition of Miss Italia; she gained public attention because she was the first blind woman admitted to the competition.

[4] At the age of 15, helped by her uncle, she took the first steps into the music scene, singing in piano bars covers of Prince, Ray Charles, Celine Dion and Aretha Franklin, her favorite artist.

She competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 1500 metres but due to there being no T11 race in the schedule, she entered the T12 event.

[3] In the Italian legislative elections of 2013 Annalisa Minetti was candidate with the political movement of Mario Monti.