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Brenda Lee

A child prodigy who grew up to become Nashville's first female teen starlet, Brenda Lee charmed the early 1960s with her country pop ballads and became one of America's favourite sweethearts. Raised in a poor family in Georgia, Atlanta, Lee (real name Brenda Tarpley) was entranced by the music she heard on the radio as a toddler and started doing talent shows at three-years-old before being discovered by Red Foley and releasing her first record, a cover of Hank Williams' Jambalaya (On The Bayou), at the grand old age of twelve. Nicknamed Little Miss Dynamite, the sound of her hug...