page_title: Trio Lescano
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Trio Lescano / History / Origins
caption_attribution_description: photo from Excelsior n° 17/1938
context_page_description: The Trio Lescano was a female vocal group singing in Italian from 1936 to 1943. The members of the group were three Hungarian-Dutch sisters, Alessandra Lescano, Giuditta Lescano and "Caterinetta" Lescano. Caterinetta left the group in 1946 and the Italian singer Maria Bria took her place. The sister’s surname Leschan was italianized into Lescano.
context_section_description: The three Leschan sisters were the daughters of  Alexander Leschan, a Hungarian acrobat born in 1877 in Budapest, and Eva de Leeuwe, a Dutch Jewish operetta singer  born in Amsterdam in 1892. In the Netherlands, where they were born and raised, they worked as circus acrobats. Though they were born in the Netherlands and Dutch native speakers, the three sisters were Hungarian citizens until they acquired the Italian citizenship.
  Consequently to an accident, the father became disabled and the mother, a vaudevillian, decided to form an acrobatic dance group: however, only the elder sisters Alexandrina and Judith joined in under the management of Enrico Portino. They formed the Sunday Sisters and performed in Europe, Syria and Lebanon; Catharina was too young and stayed in a boarding school in Amsterdam.
  In 1935 they got to Turin where maestro Carlo Prato, the artistic director of the local EIAR, noted them and decided to raise them as a vocal trio devoted to harmonic singing. Their first reference group was the American Boswell Sisters.
  The three sisters signed with Parlophon, a record label at the time distributed by Cetra. Their name was “Trio Vocale Sorelle Lescano” (Lescano Sisters vocal trio) (shortened as Trio Lescano), their names were italianized and their first song, Guarany Guaranà, was recorded on February 22, 1936, with the EIAR orchestra directed by Cinico Angelini, and it was published in March.
caption: Trio Lescano in 1938
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