14. September 2022, 17:30
Whether they’re singers who never got the notoriety they deserved, or just everyday heroines, their stories are seldom if ever told, they die and soon it seems they never existed.
The Neapolitan singer-songwriter FLO gives them a stage once more, gives them the attention they deserve. We meet the Roman Gabriela Ferri, nonconformist and great interpreter of songs in the Roman and Neapolitan dialect, among others; the Cuban singer La Lupe, who fell in love with successively Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre and Marlon Brando; Leda Valladares, singer, musicologist, poet from northern Argentina; and finally the queen of Italian émigrés in the United States, Gilda Mignonette, who began her career in Naples and rose to stardom in New York.
But FLO also dedicates a song to the unknown foster mother, the nameless prostitute who stands on the street. And Maddalena, who doesn’t want to be a man. They were all brave girls once – brave ragazze.
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