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Lil Darling
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Lil Darling, name at birth Liliana di Marco, begins her activity at the age of 20 as prose actress and operetta singer in semiprofessional companies. This experience lasted about five years and at the same time she began to go in for remarkable singing gifts for jazz singing till when, some years ago during an important meeting with the famous singer Dee Dee Bridgewater was encouraged to go on with jazz. Lil breaks off the theatrical performances to apply herself completely to Afro-American music.

She studies lyric singing with Annamaria Dalla Molla and Paola Belletti and perfects herself with Susanna Ghione. She dedicates to further studies to perfect herself in jazz singing as student of Francesca Oliveri (at Centro Jazz in Turin). She improves her jazz style accompanied by musicians among the most skilled ones on Italian scene such as pianists Riccardo Zegna and Palmino Pia. In August 2002 she attends several stages dedicated to performance in musical theatre directed by Anne-Marie Speed. She perfects herself in EVTS (Voicecraft) singing technique with Loretta Martinez and Elisa Turlą.

Endowed with a voice which is deep, aggressive and soft at the same time and with remarkable range, within a repertory of more than 200 songs, changes with easy manners from atmospheres of swing of 40s to the most mordant blues.

In 1992 founds the Lil Darling Hot Club, jazz group composed by six elements whose genre consists in "hot" jazz interpretation of songs of the 30s and 40s making up some songs belonging to golden age of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, etc. (a great majority of them became "standards" and was replayed in modern jazz) and performing them as swing/mainstream songs as they were originally. Main insipiring elements are singers such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, and musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, etc.

The Lil Darling Hot Club played at all main Italian jazz-clubs among the others at Cantina Bentivoglio in Bologna and at Alexander Platz in Rome. Participated at Festival International du Jazz in Saint Raphael, at New Orleans Jazz Festival in Oristano,  at International New Orleans Jazz Festival; played in Paris at jazz-clubs and hotels and at Festival du Jazz in Vitré, France.

Since 1996 Lil Darling is present on playbill of Teatro Regio in Turin with "All That Swing", review dedicated to the mainstays of swing and jazz such as Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, etc. Since 2000 the review All That Swing is successfully repeated at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova too.

After third repeat performance at Piccolo Regio Theatre in Turin, during summer 1998 it crossed the national frontiers to reach Japan where it was performed with success in Tokio and Osaka in 15 repeat performances.

Even if she dedicates herself to singing, Lil Darling doesn't leave the world of theatre. In 2004 plays the main role of Emily in theatrical piece "Piccola Cittą" written by Thorton Wilder and produced by company "Vittorio Alfieri" and in 2003 plays the role of Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) in musical "Bye Bye Marilyn", produced by "Haydee Company".

Discography
Bargain Day
, Lil Darling Hot Club, Boucheen Records - 1995
All That Swing
, Lil Darling Hot Club, La Citta' del Jazz © 1997
Live at the Regio
, Lil Darling Hot Club, La Citta' del Jazz © 1999.
L.O.V.E., Lil Darling Hot Club, La Citta' del Jazz © 2001.
Unforgettable Ella, Lil Darling Hot Club, La Citta' del Jazz © 2005

Promotional video:

Lil Darling Hot Club

Contacts and Information:
La Cittą del Jazz
Corso Turati 36
10128 Torino
Management: Alessandra Rocco
tel. +39 338.9657499 - +39 011.9049676
email: alessandra.rocco@cittadeljazz.com
web:
www.cittadeljazz.com
http://www.cittadeljazz.com/promolil.mpg


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