Sorelle Marinetti

Sorelle Marinetti (the Marinetti sisters) is the name of an Italian swing singer trio starring three males singers in travesti fashion. Their names are Turbina, Elica and Scintilla Marinetti (respectively Nicola Olivieri, Matteo Minerva and Marco Lugli). In October 2015 Matteo Minerva took the place to Andrea Allione, one of the original members of the trio, known to the public as "Mercuria".

Le sorelle Marinetti
Le sorelle Marinetti
Background information
OriginItaly
GenresSwing, travesty
Years active2006 (2006) to present
Websitewww.lesorellemarinetti.it
Members
  • Turbina: Nicola Olivieri
  • Elica: Matteo Minerva
  • Scintilla: Marco Lugli
The band together with the Orchestra Maniscalchi

Background and style

The band names and the pseudonyms of the singers refers to futurism and its founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.[1] The band uses Swing elements of the 1930s and musical ideas as of Giovanni D’Anzi and groups like the Boswell Sisters, the Trio Lescano and the Puppini Sisters.

Producer Giorgio Bozzo started casting members for the groups in 2006. The first CD Non ce ne importa niente was published in 2008. 2010 the band published another CD called Signorine novecento. The Orchestra Maniscalchi, a swingband produced by Bozzo, is often playing together with the sorelle.

Appearances

Some TV gigs took place with Maurizio Costanzo, of SKY Vivo, in the Maurizio Costanzo Show and as well together with Piero Chiambretti, The sorelle went on stage at the Sanremo Music Festival 2010 together with vocalist Arisa. 2010 Pippo Baudos comparison of the sorelle with Sorelle Bandiera lead to a smaller scandal in Italy, since the singers disagreed to participate in Baudilfos show afterwards.[2]

Gianni Fantoni and Giorgio Bozzo produced a musical about a swing group (the sorelle) in the time of the Allied invasion of Italy 1943. The piece called Risate sotto le bombe laughter under the bombs, was brought on stage in Milan 2013.[3]

References
  1. non ce ne importa niente Archived 2009-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, Band info at Palermos website, by Matilde Geraci
  2. Le Sorelle Marinetti offese da Pippo Baudo pretendono le scuse Il trio di tenori en travesti si è esibito con Arisa durante il festival riscuotendo successi, ma è stato vittima di uno spiacevole episodio che ha coinvolto Pippo Baudo Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, CiaoPeople Magazine 22.2.2010.
  3. Le Sorelle Marinetti sotto le bombe del '43, ALESSANDRA VITALI, 2013, La Repubblica
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