Real name: Iris Colleen Summers

Effective period / Period of releases: 1951 - 1967

Born: July 7, 1924, El Monte, California Died: September 30, 1977, Arcadia, California.
American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul & Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including "How High the Moon" and "Vaya con Dios", which were number one hits on the Billboard charts. In 1951 alone they sold six million records. With Les Paul, Mary Ford became one of the early practitioners of multi-tracking. Sister of guitarist and arranger Bob Summers.