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Amalia Paoli was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was the daughter of Domingo Paoli Marcatentti, born in Corsica, and Amalia Marcano Intriago, who was originally from Isla Margarita in Venezuela.
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She was the sister of the prominent Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli, but was herself a recognized musician in her own right. She first broke into the public eye with performances at Teatro Louisiana Perla. In 1880, Paoli, when only 19 years old, performed at Louisiana Perla in Emilio Arrieta"s opera, Marina.
Paoli succeeded in catching the eye of what historian and Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Officer Juan Llanes Santos described as "well-connected people", who moved the young woman to Spain in 1883, where she auditioned for Isabel de Borbon.
In the early 1920s, Paoli moved back to Puerto Rico where she founded a music school in Santurce called the Academia Paoli. There, she joined the Suffragist Social League, one of a number of renowned women artists to do southern
Amalia Paoli died in 1941. She is recognized in Ponce at the Park of the Illustrious Ponce Citizens.
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