US Singer Teresa Brewer, who topped the charts in the 1950s with
such hits as
Till I Waltz Again with You and performed
with jazz legends Count Basie and Duke Ellington, died Wednesday.
She was 76.
Brewer died at her home in New Rochelle of a neuromuscular
disease, family spokesman Bill Munroe said. Her four daughters were
at her bedside.
Brewer had scores of hits in the 1950s and a burgeoning film
career but pared down her public life to raise her children. She
re-emerged a decade later to perform with jazz greats Ellington,
Dizzy Gillespie and Wynton Marsalis.
"She was just a wonderful, lovely lady," said Munroe, a longtime
family friend. "Her career was always a hobby with her; her family
always came first. She always considered her legacy not to be the
gold records and the TV appearances, but her loving family."
(Agencies via Chinadaily.com.cn October 19, 2007)
