Biography
Olga Albani
Real name: Countess Olga Albani
Effective period / Period of releases: 1946
Spanish-American soprrano radio and concert singer.Born 1905 Olga Aurora Medolago in Barcelona, Spain.
Died 1940 (age of 36) in Tucson, Arizona.
She was brought to the U.S. in 1908. She became a countess when she married Count Arturo Albani. She got a divorce from him in 1935. Olga Albani's soprano voice was heard often on radio in the early 1930s, following the debut of her own program, In Old Madrid, in 1929. She also recorded with RCA Victor. She appeared in one short film, The Lady in Black (1935), playing herself.
She studied music in high school and soon after graduation an audition won her the leading role in Romberg's "The New Moon". When the show was closed she was signed by the NBC.
For a time in the 1940's, Albani was one of U.S. radio's most popular singers. She was featured on the Maxwell House and the Eastman Kodak programs. Then she was heard every Sunday at 8:45 pm over a coast to coast NBC netwrok on the Buck Revelers Program.
She died of arthritis, which had forced her to retire in 1935.