Real name: Patricia Frances Bellerose née O'Connor

Jazz vocalist from the swing era, who sang with various orchestras, including those of Billy Butterfield, Charlie Spivak, Henry Jerome, and Jimmy Dorsey in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1955 she married fellow musician, trombonist Dick Bellerose, and together they continued working in music until the 1960s when they began raising their family in Putnam, Connecticut.

Born: 17 March 1923 in Irvington, New Jersey, USA
Died: 15 May 2018 in West Peabody, Massachusetts, USA