Biography
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Curtis Lee
Real name: Curtis Edwin Lee
Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 1996
American singer and songwriter. He is known for his early 1960s hits "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" (US #7) and "Under the Moon of Love" (US #46), both of which were produced by Phil Spector.Born: October 28, 1939 in Yuma, Arizona, U.S.
Died: January 8, 2015 in Yuma, Arizona, U.S. (aged 75)
Lee began his recording career in 1959 and signed a recording contract with Dunes Records in 1960. By late 1960 he had written songs with a friend, Tommy Boyce, who would go on to become half of the hit songwriting team of Boyce & Hart. Without Spector's influence though, Lee's hits dried up. He went into the construction industry with his father in 1969. He died from cancer in 2015.