Radiolandia n. 354 - 15 June 1961.
Leny Andrade in 1961.
Leny Andrade grew up into a musical family. Her mother Rute taught her how to play the piano at an early age. She had a good voice and used to sing along while practicing her scales. She used to play a lot of records by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan & Billie Holiday on her record player and as she didn't always knew the English lyrics she would improvise over those songs in the way Fitzgerald and Vaughan used to scat. Leny ended up creating her own Brazilian-style scatting and that opened doors to her in the night-club circuit plus a contract with RCA Victor to record a whole album.
Leny & her mother Ruth, who was a great piano player bore an uncanny resemblance...
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