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Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939 – December 29, 2019) was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician. In the 1960s, she had a hit with the single "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" and wrote songs for Dusty Springfield and other prominent musicians.
Jan 17, 2020 · Norma Tanega, Who Sang About a Cat Named Dog, Dies at 80 - The New York Times. She had only one hit record, but it was a memorable one: a quirkily titled song about freedom, dreaming and her...
Apr 28, 2022 · Norma Tanega was a queer woman of colour who found success and laughter in the folk music world. A new book and compilation finally give the 1960s singer (and former lover of Dusty Springfield) the attention she deserves. By Jesse Locke • April 28, 2022 12:19 pm EDT.
Jul 20, 2022 · A friend of the lesbian folk legend Norma Tanega, whose song 'You're Dead' has a second life in What We Do in the Shadows, shares memories from her career and old gay Hollywood.
Jan 20, 2020 · Norma Tanega was a folk singer and experimental musician who had a single hit, the 1966 song “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog.” The track reached No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was...
Jan 2, 2020 · Norma Tanega had a fluke hit with “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog” in the 1960s and got renewed attention 50 years later when her deadpan song “I’m Dead” was used as the theme song of the...
Jan 18, 2020 · Cult ’60s folk singer-songwriter Norma Tanega has died, The New York Times reports. According to her lawyer, Alfred Shine, she passed away at her home in Claremont, California on 12/29 after a...
Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939, Vallejo, California – December 29, 2019, Claremont, California) is an American folk/pop singer/songwriter. She first signed to New Voice Records in...
May 5, 2022 · The daughter of a Filipino U.S. Navy bandmaster and a Panamanian teacher, Tanega, with her brown skin, dark hair, and unconventional voice, was an oddity in the predominantly white landscape of 1960s vocalists.
Norma Tanega is perhaps still best known for her 1966 recording ‘Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog’ – an unexpected chart hit in both the U.S. and the U.K., that would subsequently be covered by artists as different as Art Blakey & The Jazz Crusaders and They Might Be Giants.
