“What are you going to do when you love music,” Peggy Lee once asked. “You can’t stop.” Throughout her 70-year career, Peggy Lee became one of the most influential songwriters of our time, writing more than 270 songs (complete Peggy Lee discography), recording more than 1,100 masters, and earning more[…]
Now Lee’s fans and visitors to the Grammy Museum can get a glimpse of the singer’s life via the exhibit “100 Years of Peggy Lee,” which runs through Labor Day. Lee has been called one of the most important musical influences of the 20th century. She penned more than 270[…]
Peggy Lee was 32 years old when she walked into the Decca label’s recording studios in midtown New York to lay down the tracks for what became Black Coffee…. Recorded across three sessions – held on April 30, and May 1 and 4, 1953 – with Gabler at the helm,[…]
A new 2022 edition of the 1989 memoir Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography will be published on May 2. It will include many new features to celebrate the life and work of a brave and innovative trailblazer for female singers and artists in popular music, born in an era in[…]
A clip of Peggy Lee performing for injured American servicemen in a hospital in 1960 is newly available on the official YouTube channel of The Ed Sullivan Show. Read full article here [Source: UDiscoverMusic]
On July 27, 2022 the Hollywood Bowl will host a joint tribute to two of the most influential performing artists of the 20th century: Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra. Led by musical director Christian McBride, the event will be backed by the Count Basie Orchestra. Read full article here [Source:[…]