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    Jessica Dragonette

    Popular American radio singer (1900-1980)

    Jessica Valentina Dragonette (Born Jessica Valentina Dragonetti; February 14, 1900[1] – March 18, 1980) was a singer who became popular on American radio and was active in the World War II effort.

    Early life

    Born in Calcutta, India,[2][3] or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Jessica Valentina Dragonetti, the youngest of three children of Italian-born parents, Luigi (Louis) and Rachele (née Baronio) Dragonetti, the Social Security Death Index cites Dragonette's year of birth as 1900, as does the 1900 United States census (June 1900) which gives the age of "Jessie Dragonet" as 4 months.

    By Christmas 1909, she was orphaned and raised in a Catholic convent school, and she graduated from Catholic Girls' High School in Philadelphia in 1919.[4] Dragonette was a 1923 graduate of Mt. St. Mary's College.[2] New York poet Ree Dragonette was her cousin.[5]

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