When was peggy lee born

All rights reserved. Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose smoky, insinuating voice in such songs as "Is That All There Is" and "Fever" made her a jazz and pop legend, died yesterday Jan. She was Lee died from a heart attack at her home in the city's Bel Air section, said her daughter, Nicki Lee Foster.

Lee repeatedly battled injury and ill health, including heart trouble, in a spectacular career that brought her a Grammy, an Oscar nomination, and sold-out houses worldwide. Her biggest single was "Manana," a No. Her hits touched generations of listeners. Her mother died when she was 4, she recalled in a interview, and she was abused by a stepmother.

She said the experience turned out to be good for her, because "I learned independence. A few years later she traveled to Fargo where she sang on a local radio station. Goodman, then the King of Swing, hired her to sing with his band after hearing her while she was performing at a Chicago hotel. Then she fell in love with Goodman's guitarist, Dave Barbour, and withdrew from the music world to be his wife and raise their daughter, Nicki.

But she returned to singing when the marriage fell apart. She was a creative powerhouse, directing her life and career on her own terms. Known for her subtlety, elegance, and alluring tone, Lee saw herself, first and foremost, as a communicator whose primary medium was music. She survived a brutal childhood. Her mother died when she was four years old and her father then married a woman who physically and emotionally abused Norma until she left home at the age of Music was her escape from a grim reality.

Norma began her professional career as an adolescent living in Wimbledon, ND, and traveling on weekends to nearby Valley City, where she made her debut on the radio. Nationwide popularity and chart-hitting success first came to her in after being hired as the singer with the Benny Goodman Orchestra.

Her last album, Moments Like This , was recorded in for Chesky. Her voice was effectively silenced after a stroke, and she died of a heart attack at her Bel Air home in early AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental.

You look like a Peggy. Peggy Lynn. Reinventing herself as Peggy Lee, Egstrom had an opportunity to put her troubled past behind her and create a new persona as well as make a fresh start. After making a name for herself in Fargo, she moved to California in , where she took a job as a waitress while trying to break into the music business.

But a bout of tonsillitis took her back to North Dakota. When she recovered, she got a regular gig singing in a Fargo hotel, before taking to the road again. First, Lee went west back to California and then east, over to Chicago. It was there that bandleader Benny Goodman saw her perform and hired her to take over from singer Helen Forrest, who was leaving his group.

Lee underwent a baptism of fire with the so-called King Of Swing.