Kay Starr
USA
Born: 21 July 1922
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Styles: Swing, Big Band/Swing, Vocal Pop, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Standards, Hard Bop, Vocal Jazz
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A solid jazz singer whose early recordings tended to be forgotten after her ascendancy into the commercial sphere during the mid-'50s, Kay Starr was among the first pop singer to capitalize on the "rock fad" with her 1955 novelty "Rock and Roll Waltz." Her biggest hit came with the era-defining "Wheel of Fortune," a prime slice of '50s adult pop with a suitably brassy reading. Born in Oklahoma, she moved to Dallas at a young age and made her debut on radio while still in school. A brief stay with Glenn Miller & His Orchestra precipitated her wo...
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