Real name: Martha Jane Lafferty

Effective period / Period of releases: 1959

American big band singer and actress.
Born April 23, 1921 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA.
Died February 19, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Married to arranger/conductor Lou Busch (1943-1950, divorced).
At age 18, she was a lead vocalist with Hal Kemp's band at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. She appeared in over 1,200 performances over a three-year period in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" within a three-year period.