Twins Nete (in

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Le Gemelle Nete) was an Italian musical group founded by the sisters Neta and Kina Costamagna in 1940.

Career

Anna (Neta) and Domenica (Kina) Costamagna were born in 1911 in

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. They started to work as

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s: Neta with

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s and China with embroidery. In the 1940s they began, as autodidacts, to study

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

: Neta with the

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

and China with the

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. For more than 40 years they sang

italian popular music The expression Italian popular music refers to the musical output which is not usually considered academic or Classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can either be defined in terms o ...

: sweet and popular pieces of the workers or of the

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. Kina died in 1990, but Neta continued to sing solo, or with other popular groups. In 2001, for the 90th birthday of China an artistic book about their work was published, with compliments by

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, Aldo Grasso,

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and many others. Neta died in 2002. From the summer of 2011, the Municipality of

has organised, every 2–3 years, the ''Nete Pride'', in collaboration with popular Italian groups.''100 anni di gemelle Nete e 150 anni di Unità d'Italia a Trinità''
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Discography

Some of their most known songs are: * Amor di pastorello * Balocchi e profumi * Canti nuovi * Creola * Donna * La piccola fioraia * Ladra * Meglio sarebbe * Miniera * Nina panca * Sogni d'oro * Stornelli campagnoli * Tic e tic, tac e tac (Gira, rigira biondina) *

Un bacio a mezzanotte "Un bacio a mezzanotte" (lit. "A Midnight Kiss" or "A Kiss At Midnight") is a 1952 Italian song composed by Gorni Kramer (music) and Garinei & Giovannini (lyrics). Originally part of the revue ''Gran baraonda'' (Great chaos), starring Wanda Osiri ...

References

External links

Twins Nete in ''Un bacio a mezzanotte'' on Youtube

Twins Nete in ''Gira, rigira biondina'' on Youtube

Trinità’s Municipality Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nete Twins Italian musical duos Twin musical duos Italian pop music groups Female musical duos 1911 births 1990 deaths 2002 deaths