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30.09.11

CORVALLIS — The words came to June Millington in a dream last year: “Two little girls staring out at the sea / Water touching China, it’s as blue as can be.” It was a childhood memory of life in Manila, of visiting her mother’s hometown and frolicking with younger sister Jean in waves that indeed poured in from the South China Sea.

It was also the beginning of “Play Like a Girl,” the title track of an album rich in musical diversity that rocks and contemplates as only the Millington sisters can.

The disc tells in part the incredible true story of two Caucasian-Filipina girls (their father, Navy lieutenant commander John Millington, had married Yolanda Limjoco in 1947; Jean and June were two of seven children) who in 1961 emigrated with their family to the United States, where in a decade’s time they’d make history with Fanny, one of rock ’n’ roll’s first all-female bands.

It was an impact that afforded both women the ability to pass on lessons learned, to teach future generations of women that there were no limits. Two little girls had once indeed stared out at the sea, and eventually they saw the world beyond it.

Source: Albany Democrat Herald