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Annie Ross

An internationally-celebrated jazz vocalist and actress, Annie Ross was born in London on July 25, 1930. She landed her first movie role at 7 years old, singing "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" in the short film Our Gang Follies of 1938. She acted alongside Judy Garland in 1943's Presenting Lily Mars and shifted her focus to music during the 1950s, joining the vocal jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross in 1957. Leaders of the vocalese genre, the group hit its stride in the early 1960s, when they released three albums with Columbia Records and earned a Grammy Awards for 1962's Hig...