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Brenda Lee was born on December 11, 1944 in Lithonia, Georgia, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Joy Ride (2001), Dick Tracy (1990) and Reindeer Games (2000). She has been married to Charles Ronald 'Ronnie' Shacklett since April 24, 1963.
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Feb 20, 2018 · At 73, Lee is the youngest of those artists. They were all roughly a decade older than her when she began her professional recording career – with a revved up version of Hank Williams’...
By age six, she won a talent contest and earned an appearance on a local radio station where she became a regular. Her father died when she was just seven and by the time she was 10, Lee had become the family’s breadwinner as her music career began to soar. ... Brenda Lee has also forged a successful life away from the spotlight. She married ...
Nov 29, 2023 · As if frozen at the precocious age when she became famous, Lee, now 78, still stands at a diminutive 4’9” — maybe 4’11” with the hair — and wears a size 2½ shoe.
She was a network-television star and a national recording artist at age eleven. At twelve, she became the youngest headliner in Las Vegas history. She was the toast of Europe and a sensation in Latin America when she was fourteen.
1997. Born. December 11, 1944. Birthplace. Atlanta, Georgia. A Born Singer. A professional singer by the age of six and a recording artist by the age of twelve, Brenda Lee has fashioned a career of uncommon durability that spans more than sixty years and transcended the musical boundaries of pop and country music.
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Mar 11, 2005 · Image from Bradford Timeline. Brenda Lee was born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11, 1944, in the charity ward of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and was raised in Conyers and Lithonia. She was the second of four children born to Annie Grayce Yarbrough and Ruben Lindsey Tarpley.
