BERLIN (AP).— Alice and Ellen Kessler, twin dancers and singers who launched their careers in the 1950s and performed with Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra y Harry Belafonteamong others, died at 89 years oldpolice in Germany reported yesterday.
He death of the twins in Grünwald, an affluent Munich suburb where they shared a house, was reported by the German newspaper Bild and a news agency, without named sources.
The Munich police confirmed the deaths on Tuesday, saying in an email statement that it was a “joint suicide”.
Las Kessler twins They learned to dance at a young age and joined the children’s ballet from the Leipzig Opera. In 1952, when They were 16 years old, Her family fled to West Germany, where they danced in a revue theater in Düsseldorf.
In 1955, the sisters were discovered by the director of the Lido cabaret theater in Pariswhere his career took off.
In the 1960s, the Kessler twins they went on world tours, moved to Rome and performed with Astaire, Sinatra and Belafonte. They turned down an offer to appear with Elvis Presley in “Long live Las Vegas” in 1964 for fear of being defined by musical films in the United States, dpa reported.
Even in their 80s, the sisters appeared on stage in a musical. Alice said shortly before her 80th birthday that they probably wouldn’t have managed to perform for so long alone.
Being a duo has advantages, he said. “It makes you stronger in many ways.”
“Discipline, every day. Gratitude, over and over again. Humility, not arrogance,” he said of the secret to his success. “And union, until death.”