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Peggy Lee

American singer (1920–2002)

Norma Deloris Egstrom, known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music.

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Peggy Lee

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from: Jamestown
born: 1920
until: 2002
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File card: Peggy Lee

real name: Norma Deloris Egstrom

labels: Decca, Capitol Records

genres: pop music, jazz

awards: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame

plays: voice

member of: Paul Weston and his Orchestra

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Early life

Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad. Her family were Lutherans. Her father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American. After her mother died when Lee was four, her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese. His family's original name was Ekström.

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1940–1951: Recordings with Benny Goodman and the early Capitol years

She joined Goodman's band in August 1941 and made her first recording, singing "Elmer's Tune". Lee stayed with the Benny Goodman Orchestra for two years.

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Acting career

Lee starred opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). She played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Legacy

Lee is often cited as the inspiration for the Margarita cocktail. In 1948, after a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas. She requested a drink similar to one she had had in Mexico, and the head bartender, Santos Cruz, created the Margarita, and named it after the Spanish version of Peggy's name.

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American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress. Born May 26, 1920 in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA. Died January 21, 2002 in Bel Air, California, USA. She was married four times, including to songwriter/bandleader (1943 -1951) (divorced). She won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the hard-drinking singer in the jazz saga, Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) and composed songs for the 1955 Walt Disney animated classic Lady and the Tramp (1955). Musically, she is probably best known for the song "Fever", which charted in the U.S. (#8) and the U.K. (#5) in 1958 and is considered a classic. She had songs that ranked higher but this has become synomous with her as a singer. Her top charting song was "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)", which came in 1948, the song hitting #1. "Golden Earrings" hit #2 in 1948, as did "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)" hit #2 in 1959. Overall as a solo artist she charted forty-five times between 1945 and 1992. She also charted with duets with Mel Torme and with Bing Crosby and three times while singing with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra in 1952. As a songwriter, she charted twelve times, with the aforementioned Also known as: G. Barbour, Lee, Lee Peggy, Miss Peggy Lee, P Lee From Discogs (free to use). Their entry