by Lloyd Sachs Chicago Sun-Times, January 23, 2002 In a field dominated by singers with big or flashy styles, Peggy Lee became a sotto voce legend. The platinum-blond North Dakota native, who died Monday at age 81 from a heart attack, was popular music’s ultimate embodiment of less is more,[…]

‘Is That All There Is?’ was quite a lot when she sang it. Editorial Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer, January 24, 2002 A critic once described her as “Billie Holiday meets Mae West,” but that wasn’t quite right. Billie Holiday sang with a soul no one else possessed. Mae West performed[…]

Her sultry voice had emotional breadth by Richard Dyer Boston Globe, January 23, 2002 Nobody ever did more with less than Miss Peggy Lee, who used an art of indirection to reach her listeners where they live. Lee died of heart failure Monday night in her home in Los Angeles;[…]

Her sultry voice and creative songwriting made lasting impressions in pop and jazz music. by Peter Goodman Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2002 Norma Deloris Egstrom was raised a tough North Dakota farm girl who shucked grain, pitched hay and drove the water wagon, yearned to escape her stepmother’s daily beatings,[…]

Her sultry voice and creative songwriting made lasting impressions in pop and jazz music. by Peter Goodman Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2002 Norma Deloris Egstrom was raised a tough North Dakota farm girl who shucked grain, pitched hay and drove the water wagon, yearned to escape her stepmother’s daily beatings,[…]

Peggy Lee cracked the Top 10 in three different decades and was wedded to her art until the end by Kevin Jones The Australian, January 23, 2002 Peggy Lee, like Frank Sinatra, had that almost uncanny ability to find and bring out the meaning of a song. Lee’s voice may[…]