Froman, Jane
(1911–1980)> DEEP-VOICED POPULAR SINGER OF THE 1930S-1950S,
Jane Froman Deep-voiced popular singer of the 1930s-1950s, Ellen Jane Froman, St. Louis, Missouri, November 10, 1911; Columbia, Missouri, April 22, 1980. Froman popularized several standards of the 1930s, beginning with her first appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934. Her mother was a college music teacher in Columbia, Missouri, and Froman showed early skills as a singer. She began singing in local clubs while still a teen, and then attended college from 1922 to 1926. After graduate…