Trio Lescano
Trio Lescano or Lescano Trio was a vocal trio singing close harmony. The trio became extremely popular in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s. The trio was an Italian version of American groups such as the Boswell Sisters, the Andrews Sisters and was formed by three Dutch sisters Alexandra (1910-1987), Judik (1913-??,possibly mid '70s), and Catharina Leschan (1919-1965), whose names were italianized into Alessandra, Giuditta and Caterinetta (Caterina) Lescano.
The three girls were born in Gouda (Alexandra) and The Hague, of Alexander Leschan (1877-1945), a Budapest-born circus artist, and Eva de Leeuwe (1892-1985), a Dutch Jewish operetta singer. They grew up in the Netherlands, where the elder sisters worked as acrobatic dancers before forming a vocal trio with their younger sister.
They arrived in Italy in the mid-1930s, and took up the name Trio Lescano. Directed by Maestro Carlo Prato and thanks to the radio, they became immediately so famous that even Benito Mussolini, passing by their balcony one day, recognized them and stopped to greet them.
