Nete Twins

Twins Nete
Twins Nete
Origin	Italy, Region of Piemonte
Genres	Italian popular music
Years active	1940–1995
Members	Neta Costamagna; Kina Costamagna

Twins Nete (in Italian Le Gemelle Nete) was an Italian musical group founded by the sisters Neta and Kina Costamagna in 1940.

Career

Anna (Neta) and Domenica (Kina) Costamagna were born in 1911 in Trinità, province of Cuneo, Italy. They started to work as tailors: Neta with shirts and China with embroidery.

In the 1940s they began, as autodidacts, to study music: Neta with the guitar and China with the mandolin. For more than 40 years they sang italian popular music: sweet and popular pieces of the workers or of the Italian economic miracle.

Kina died in 1990, but Neta continued to sing solo, or with other popular groups. In 2001, for the 90th birthday of China an artistic book about their work was published, with compliments by Renzo Arbore, Aldo Grasso, Michele Serra and many others. ^[1] Neta died in 2002.^[2]

From the summer of 2011, the Municipality of Trinità has organised, every 2–3 years, the Nete Pride,^[3] in collaboration with popular Italian groups.^[4]

Discography

Some of their most known songs are:

Amor di pastorello
Balocchi e profumi
Canti nuovi
Creola
Donna
La piccola fioraia
Ladra
Meglio sarebbe
Miniera
Nina panca
Sogni d'oro
Stornelli campagnoli
Tic e tic, tac e tac (Gira, rigira biondina)
Un bacio a mezzanotte

References

External links

[1] Tace la chitarra dell'ultima gemella Neta

[2] Addio a Anna Costamagna, la sopravvissuta delle Gemelle Nete

[3] Un successo strepitoso quello di ieri sera a Trinità per il "Gemelle Nete Pride"

[4] 100 anni di gemelle Nete e 150 anni di Unità d'Italia a Trinità

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