Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American popular music singer. She was notable for her "soft and cool" cantabile style, which she is thought to keep close at hand developed around response to loud cabaret audiences.

Lee was innate Norma Dolores Egström within Jamestown, North Dakota. When her mother died her father remarried & her stepmother was super cruel to her. Then she left personal, & around 1941, she joined Benny Goodman's band—then at a height of its popularity—& for assibilate 2 years toured a United States sustaining it. Inside July 1942, Lee recorded her number one hit, "Why Don't You Do Right?" It sold over a million copies and made her famous. Around March 1943, Lee married Dave Barbour, a guitar player inside Goodman's band.

Within 1944, Lee began to record for Capitol Records, for whom she produced a long string of hits, several of the two by using lyrics & music by Lee & Barbour. She is best known for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit "Fever" and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's "Is That All There Is?" Her relationship by using a label lasted nigh leash decades, although from either 1952-1957 she moved to Decca Records.

She wwhen as well referred to as a ballad maker using such hits as a songs from either the Disney pic Lady and the Tramp, which she also sang.

Lee likewise acted around many films. Inside 1953, she played paired Danny Thomas in a remaking of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer. Around 1955, she played the heartsick & alcohol-dependent blues singer around ''Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

In the early Nineties, she with success sued Disney for royalties in Lady & a Tramp''. She claimed that she poronotus triacanthus royalties for streaming video tapes, the technology that didn't survive after she agreed to write & perform for Disney.

Peggy Lee died (when years of unfortunate health) from either either complications from diabetes & cardiac disease at a age of 81 around 2002; she is survived by her girl, Nicki Barbour.

She is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

Peggy Lee occurs as recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.

Albums
1948 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee 1954 Songs in an Intimate Style 1954 ''Selections from Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' (w/ Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) 1955 Songs from 'Pete Kelly's Blues' 1956 Black Coffee 1957 Peggy Lee's Dream Street 1957 Songs from Walt Disney's 'Lady and the Tramp' 1957 The Man I Love 1958 Sea Shells 1959 Jump for Joy 1959 Things Are Swingin' 1959 Miss Wonderful 1959 I Like Men! 1959 Beauty and the Beat 1960 Latin a la Lee 1960 All Aglow Again 1960 Pretty Eyes 1960 Christmas Carousel 1960 Ole a la Lee 1961 Basin Steet East Proudly Presents Peggy Lee 1961 If You Go 1962 Blues Cross Country 1962 Bewitching-Lee 1962 Sugar 'N' Spice 1963 Mink Jazz 1963 I'm a Woman 1964 In Love Agan! 1964 In the Name of Love 1965 Pass Me By 1965 That Was Then and This Is Now 1966 Guitars a la Lee 1966 Big Spender 1967 Extra Special 1967 Somethin' Groovy 1968 Two Shows Nightly 1969 A Natural Woman 1969 Is That All There Is? 1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970 Make It With You 1971 Where Did They Go? 1971 Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota 1974 Let's Love 1975 Mirrors 1977 Live in London 1977 Peggy 1979 Close Enough for Love 1988 Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues 1993 Moments Like This 1993 Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen

Filmography
The Powers Girl (1943) Stage Door Canteen (1943) Banquet of Melody (1946) (short subject) Jasper in a Jam (1946) (short subject) (voice) Midnight Serenade (1947) (short subject) Peggy Lee and the Dave Barbour Quartet (1950) (short subject) Mr. Music (1950) The Jazz Singer (1953) Lady and the Tramp (1955) Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) Celebrity Art'' (1973) (short subject)