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Trio Lescano
12+ albums
swingjazzitalianItalyfemale vocalist
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Trio Lescano was a vocal trio singing close harmony. The trio became extremely popular in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s. The trio was an Italian version of American groups such as the Andrews Sisters or Boswell Sisters, and was formed by three Dutch sisters Alexandra (1910-1987), Judith (1913-2007), and Kitty Leschan (1919-1965), whose names were italianized into Alessandra, Giuditta and Caterinetta (Caterina) Lescano. The three girls were born of a Hungarian contortionist and a Dutch Jewish operetta singer. They grew up in the Netherlands, where they worked as acrobats before forming a vocal trio. They arrived in Italy in the mid-1930s, and took up the name Trio Lescano. Directed by maestro Carlo Prato and thanks to the radio, they became immediately so famous that even Benito Mussolini, passing by their balcony one day, recognized them and stopped to greet them. In 1939, the year of the hit song Se potessi avere mille lire al mese ("If I had thousand liras a month"), Trio Lescano made one thousand liras a day! In 1941 the Lescano sisters became Italian citizens. This made big news on the Italian papers, who had invented for them such definitions as "the three graces of the microphone", "the century's sensation", "the sisters who materialize the mystery of the heavenly trinity". But just two years later, their golden period ended: because of their mother's Jewish origins, they were first cancelled from all radio programs, then stripped of their newly acquired Italian citi
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Trio Lescano: 25 Grandi Successi (Le grandi voci della musica italiana)
Trio Lescano: Supporter
Le Grandi Voci Della Canzone Italiana
Piccole Stelle
Trio Lescano
The Italian Song - Trio Lescano, Volume 2
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Ciribiribin
The Italian Song - Trio Lescano, Volume 1
Trio Lescano: I Successi, Vol. 1
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Italian Revival
Il Trio Lescano - Tuli-tuli-pan
The Italian Song - Trio Lescano, Volume 3