UGGAMS, LESLIE

UGGAMS, LESLIE. Popular-music singer (25 May 1943 in New York, New York). She obtained her musical training at the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School of Music (1961-63), both in the city of New York. She began performing professionally at an early age; she began appearing on the Beulah television show when she was two years old (1945-50) and sang at the Apollo Theater in the Harlem community when she was nine. As a young adult she first...