Peggy Lee

What draws me to Peggy Lee is the power of her restraint. Emerging from Benny Goodman's band and singing for seven decades, she built a sophisticated persona on the idea that a whisper can be more electric than a belt. That cool, knowing sensuality is genuinely one of a kind. A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and a Walk of Fame star confirm her stature, but they undersell her range: she wrote songs and acted too. A girl from small-town North Dakota who came to embody urban elegance, that transformation alone earns my applause.

Name (English)

Peggy Lee

Name (Japanese)

ペギー・リー

Reading

ぺぎー・りー

Born

May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Jamestown, North Dakota, United States

Occupation

film actor / actor / singer / songwriter / jazz musician

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1970 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1999 Songwriters Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.peggylee.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/peggyleeofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/peggyleemusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy%20Lee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229139

Tags

• North Dakota
• film actor
• actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.