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What's left of Peggy Lee ? One of the greatest jazz singers in history is best known through the countless covers of her version of " Fever ", the title of which she adapted only the lyrics. Peggy Lee is much more than that, Singer, author and actress, she knows a career that spans sixty years, with intense musical activity during thirty of them. Jazz, but also pop, a glamorous blonde, Peggy Lee has dazzled since "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place", her first number one in 1942. Peggy Lee continued to perform in the nineties, before dying on January 21, 2002 of complications related to diabetes.

Very few genres are as difficult to interpret pianistically as that of contemporary serious music: it often requires a superhuman degree of both virtuosity and patience, and the potential pitfalls of expression are ever-present.

Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Primarily performing rockabilly, pop, country and Christmas music, she achieved her first Billboard hit aged 12 in 1957 and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite".

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music", Lee recorded more than 1,100 masters and co-wrote over 270 songs.

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music", Lee recorded more than 1,100 masters and co-wrote over 270 songs.

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning six decades.

The album contains popular works of piano literature, which combines the theme of distant reminiscences of lost happiness-expressed directly in the titles of the works or veiled, as in Schubert's Sonata in a major written a few months before his death. It is a tribute to Beethoven's style, but also a typical conglomeration of intimate emotions expressed in lyrical motifs, where brilliant piano playing is in the background, although undeniably present. Janáček's cycles were created in the darkest period of his life.

Born in the Northern Louisiana Town of Ferriday in 1935, Jerry Lee Lewis grew up listening to a variety of music; The Louisiana Hayride and Grand Ol' Opry broadcasts, 78 rpm recordings of country singers, and the inspired gospel music of the Assembly of God Church. He also spent hours hiding behind the bar at Haney's Big House, soaking up the sounds of blues men like, then 18 year old B.B. King.
His parents both loved country music, and soon young Jerry Lee picked up on it too. At his aunt's house, Jerry would play on the piano and when his parents heard him, they knew he was naturally gifted. They even mortgaged their home to buy him his own piano when Jerry was 8………

If You Go is a 1961 album by Peggy Lee that was arranged by Quincy Jones.