Real name: Norma (Ellis) Douglas Zimdahl

Effective period / Period of releases: 1954 - 1956

American singer and pianist.
Born May 6, 1931 in upstate New York.
She began playing the piano at age 4 and had her own television show at the age of 16.
At not quite 16, she enrolled at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where she was approached to fill a 15-minute TV show in Rochester. She did the show, "A Girl, a Boy and a Piano," for a couple of years, then headed for New York City.
During her 20s, Douglas performed in a couple of Broadway musicals, toured with Fred Waring's orchestra, appeared with Arthur Godfrey on radio and television, snared star billing at the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room and recorded an album.