Peggy Lee once asked in a haunting song, “Is That All There Is?” Today, at age 77, fans will be relieved to know that the elegant singer reflects back on her long career not with a sense of emptiness but with the wisdom of a woman who is still productive[…]

From the hippest jazz cat to the sultriest sex kitten, every young musician worships Miss Peggy Lee. In a rare interview, she shows why she’s still the coolest feline of them all. Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota on May 26, 1920, the legendary Miss Peggy Lee soon[…]

by Matthew Linfoot The Royal Albert Hall, January 1990: A sultry, sexy voice that fills the vast space, singing of love anticipated, fulfilled and unrequited. It comes from a lady in her seventies, too frail to stand, dressed in cardinal red, her alabaster face framed by an electric white wig.[…]

by Will Friedwald Billie Holiday, never overly generous with her praise of other singers, told Metronome magazine in 1950, “I’ve loved Peggy, ever since she started.” Then Lady Day added, “And she’s been very fortunate. She’s always had the kind of setting every singer needs.” But for Peggy Lee, who[…]

by Lee Hildebrand One does not often think of Peggy Lee as a blues singer, especially when considering the cheery optimism of such self-penned lyrics as “It’s a Good Day” and “Mañana,” two of the singer’s earliest hits. Yet the blues, as a feeling and as a musical form, has[…]

by Howard Reich In a word, she is indomitable. Undeterred by diabetes, by a heart condition that require bypass surgery a couple years ago, by a fall from a Las Vegas stage in 1987 that left her with several broken bones, singer-songwriter Peggy Lee presses on. Perhaps the same spirit[…]