Flo Sandon's

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Flo Sandon’s (born June 30, 1924 in Vicenza as Mammola Sandon , † November 17, 2006 in Rome ) was an Italian singer and one of the great stars of Italian popular music in the 1950s.

Career

Mammola Sandon's father was an Italian-American architect or portrait painter who worked in Italy and eventually settled in Rome. Mammola was among his five children, but she was born in Vicenza. Her nickname "Flo" is an abbreviation of the English Flower , which means mammola ( scented violet ) was translated into English. She grew up in Rome and studied linguistics . At the end of the Second World War she worked as a translator for the American Red Cross and also had her first appearance as a singer in 1944. Soon afterwards she moved to Milan , where she made her debut on the stage of the hip eatery Il Trocadero in 1947 . In the same year she signed a record deal with the Durium label. Her surname was originally only accidentally given an English genitive S; the spelling was retained because it sounded “more international”.

The singer's official first record was Love Letters ; she sang the song originally in English and immediately achieved great success. Another early success she achieved with Verde luna from the soundtrack of the film King of the Toreros (1941). Between 1949 and 1950 Sandon's appeared in the Hot Club de France and had already made his first appearances abroad, for example in France or in the Middle East . She worked with Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt . In 1951 she appeared in Egypt before King Faruq . That year she was also hired by the Rai for public radio. She caught the attention of radio audiences with her linguistic and stylistic versatility and her very personal singing style and quickly became extremely popular. In addition, she was hired for the film Anna as a dubbing singer for leading actress Silvana Mangano ; the film songs El negro Zumbon and Non dimenticar (che ti ho voluto tanto bene) interpreted by her became hits far beyond Italy (the latter again in 1961 in the version by Nat King Cole ).

After this steep career, Flo Sandon's competed at the 1953 Sanremo Festival , the third edition of the young music competition. There she presented, alongside Carla Boni , the song Viale d'autunno and won, relegating the two-time defending champion Nilla Pizzi to second place. In 1955 she married Natalino Otto , a popular swing singer. By 1963 , Sandon's took part in the Sanremo Festival five more times. In 1960 she also won the Festival di Napoli with Serenata a Margellina . Between 1963 and 1967 she successfully toured North America. Meanwhile, the music scene in Italy had changed dramatically, especially with beat bands in the wake of the Beatles . Nevertheless, after her return in 1966, the singer immediately took part in the Un disco per l'estate competition.

After Natalino Otto's untimely death in 1969, Flo Sandon's largely withdrew from the public eye. First she ran a record store in Milan, and in the 1980s she made a few appearances as a singer again. In the 1990s she appeared on television on various occasions, and in 2006 she died in Rome at the age of 82.

Web links

Commons : Flo Sandon's  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e Massimo Baldone: Flo Sandon. (PDF) In: Il Discobolo. Museo Virtuale del Disco e dello Spettacolo Radio, accessed August 1, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b c d Massimo Emanuelli: Flo Sandon's. In: Blog Massimo Emanuelli. August 24, 2018, accessed August 1, 2019 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Sandon's, Flo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sandon, Mammola (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicenza
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 2006
Place of death Rome