Las hermanas padilla biography
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Las Hermanas Padilla, sometimes billed as the Andrew Sisters of Mexican music due to their pitch-perfect harmonies, was one of the most popular and prolific Mexican vocal duets of the 1930s and ’40s. Based in Los Angeles, the Padilla sisters, Margarita and María, set a standard for their style of singing boleros and rancheras, becoming among the first internationally successful recording acts to emerge from the Mexican American music scene in Southern California.
With a career that spanned over four decades, the Hermanas Padilla became known not only for their harmonies, but also for their emotive interpretations, which were both soulful and joyful, impassioned yet restrained. The sisters became the first female vocal duet from the United States to hit it big on both sides of the border, influencing a generation of similar duet acts that gained wide popularity among Mexican and Latin American audiences in the mid-20th century.
Despite their fame and influence, biographical information on the singing sisters is scant and scattered. Wikipedia has a short entry on them in a language that appears to be Ladino, though oddly enough, there is no entry in English or Spanish. There is a smattering of biographical data on miscellaneous music websites,
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