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Georgia Gibbs

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Profession
Jazz Singer
Died
Dec 9, 2006
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Massachusetts
About
Remembered for her stylistic versatility, this twentieth-century jazz, pop, and R&B-influenced vocalist recorded such United States music chart-topping songs as "If I Knew You Were Comin' (I'd've Baked a Cake)," "Kiss of Fire," and "Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower)."
Family
Born to Russian-Jewish parents, Frieda Lipschitz (who later changed her name to Georgia Gibbs) grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she spent nearly a decade of her early life in an orphanage. In her late thirties, she married writer and international affairs expert Frank Gervasi; the union produced one child.

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