Ina and Cessa, who were twins, were born in 1927,[1] and Rita in 1934, on Naghir Island in the Torres Strait.
[1] Their married names were Cessa Nakata, Ina Titasey, and Rita Fell-Tyrell.
[5] They performed at the Brisbane Expo in 1988, the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland,[6] around Australia, and in the early 1990s toured England, France and New Zealand.
[1] They also performed all over the Pacific[7] Their version of "TI Blues" (a song written by Seaman Dan) has been called "a signature tune for the Torres Strait".
[13] The half-hour documentary film Frangipani Land Forever was made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Indigenous department in 2008 in their "Message Stick" series, directed by Douglas Watkin.