Lucia Mannucci (18 May 1920 – 6 March 2012)
– accessed 13 March 2012 was an Italian singer, best known as one of the singers of
Quartetto Cetra
Quartetto Cetra (; ) was an Italian jazz vocal quartet established during the early 1940s and active until 1988.
Career
The band was based on the Mills Brothers and started performing under the name Quartetto Egie from the initials of the singers ...
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Italian
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vocal quartet.
Born in
Bologna
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Italy
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Mannucci relocated to
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
at a young age. She attended the Art of Movement school directed by Carla Strauss. She successfully auditioned for EIAR, the Italian national radio broadcasting company, and worked as a singer for various radio orchestras. She toured Italy for some years, working with such entertainers as
Gorni Kramer
Gorni Kramer (22 July 1913 – 26 October 1995) was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.
Biography
He was born Francesco Kramer Gorni at Rivarolo Mantovano (Lombardy). Despite the exotic sound of Gorni Kramer in the Italian lang ...
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Natalino Otto
Natalino Otto, stage name of Natale Codognotto (24 December 1912 – 4 October 1969) was an Italian singer. He started the swing genre in Italy.
Biography
Early years
Natalino Otto was born at Cogoleto, province of Genoa, in northern Italy.
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, and the Quartetto Cetra.
On 19 August 1944, she married
Virgilio Savona
Antonio Virgilio Savona (21 December 1919 – 27 August 2009) was an Italian composer, arranger, and singer in the Italian vocal group, the Quartetto Cetra.Mario Luzzatto Fegiz, Corriere della Sera (29 August 2009)Addio a Virgilio Savona, ideo ...
, one of the singers of the Quartetto Cetra.
Three years later, she also joined the quartet, replacing
.
Mannucci was the only female member of Quartetto Cetra, but she also had a successful career as a solo singer. Besides working with Quartetto Cetra, Mannucci pursued a solo career as singer, musical actress, and TV show hostess. She and her husband also did research on folk music.
Mannucci died in March 2012 in Milan, aged 91.
References
External links
Lucia Mannucci's obituary
1920 births
2012 deaths
Musicians from Bologna
Italian jazz musicians
20th-century Italian women singers
Quartetto Cetra members
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