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Inezita Barroso, pseudônimo de Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima (São Paulo, 4 de março de 1925) é uma cantora, atriz, instrumentista, folclorista, professora e apresentadora de rádio e televisão brasileira, atuando também em shows, discos, cinema e teatro. Apaixonada pela cultura e, principalmente, pela música brasileira, Inezita começou a cantar e tocar violão e viola desde pequena, com sete anos. Estudiosa, matriculou-se no conservatório e aprendeu piano. Formou-se em biblioteconomia pela USP, antes de se tornar cantora profissional, em 1953. Com o primeiro disco, vieram também os primeiros sucessos: o clássico samba Ronda, de Paulo Vanzolini e a caipiríssima Moda...

In 1980, Gian Piero Reverberi selected talented young musicians graduating from different Italian Conservatories to form a new musical group to be named Rondo Veneziano, little knowing that what they were creating would make his compositions famous all over the world. The group Rondo Veneziano was at first a chamber orchestra like the well known groups of I MUSICI and SOLISTI VENETI. Afterwards the originally all-female act was elaborated to improve the orchestral performance by adding two rhythmical elements - electric bass and drums - that though being modern instruments, are used mainly to enhance some passages, respecting the traditional...

Anna Bon (ca.1739-?) was an Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally; her father was the Bolognese artist Girolamo Bon, a librettist and scenographer, and her mother was the singer Rosa Ruvinetti Bon. Anna was born in Russia. On March 8, 1743, at the age of four, she was admitted to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice as a student; that she had a surname indicates that she was not a foundling as were most of the Pièta wards, but a tuition-paying pupil (figlia de spesi). She studied with the maestra di viola,...