Lucia Mannucci
Lucia Mannucci ( born May 18, 1920 in Bologna, † March 7, 2012 in Milan ) was an Italian singer and actress who was successful as a female voice singing quartet Quartetto Cetra, especially in the 1940s and 1950s.
Life
Lucia Mannucci, which in 1941 won a singing competition of the radio station EIAR, married in 1944 the composer, arranger and singer Antonio Virgilio Savona and in 1947 a member of the company founded by him, Felice Chiusano and Giovanni "Tata " Giacobetti vocal quartet Quartetto Cetra, after the previous fourth member of the ensemble Enrico De Angelis was excreted. In addition, she was also a successful solo artist and had Bibbidi - Bobbidi - 1951 bu from the Disney movie Cinderella a number -one hit in Italy.
In the following years she coined as the female voice to the music style of the Quartet decisively that ranged from jazz to rock 'n ' roll. 1957, the Group adopted under the title L' orologio matto an italian -language version of Rock Around the Clock on, and contributed to the popularity of rock ' n ' roll in Italy. Other well-known songs of the quartet of those years were Aveva un bavero, Il Visconte di Castelfombrone, Un disco dei Platters, Che centrattacco! , Nella vecchia fattoria Vecchia America, Un bacio a mezzanotte, I ricordi della sera and troppi affari cavaliere, !, which were partly in collaboration with composers and songwriters like Lelio Luttazzi and Gorni Kramer.
Even with the Quartetto Cetra she had several number one hits in Italy, namely mezzanotte with Un bacio a ( 1953), Aveva un bavero (1954 ) and with musetto (1956).
In 1964 she was also a successful actress, particularly for her roles in television films known novels and classics like The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Odyssey, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Count of Monte Cristo for the television program Biblioteca di Studio Uno. For some of these films, they also wrote the screenplays.
Most recently, she published with her husband Antonio Virgilio Savona CD Capricci.