LEE, BRENDA
(*1944)
LEE, BRENDA (b. B. Mae Tarpley, Lithonia, Ga., December 11, 1944) Little Miss Dyn-a-mite, as she was known in the 1950s, Brenda Lee is a big-throated chanteuse who has passed through careers in ROCKABILLY, tear-jerkin' country-pop, cabaret, and then country. Lee was performing on country radio in and around Atlanta as early as age seven. When she was eleven, RED FOLEY's manager convinced Decca to sign her to a contract, and she had her first hit with Dynamite a year later, earning her her…