Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney is my favorite kind of star: one whose second act outshines the first. The novelty hits of the early fifties — 'Come On-a My House,' 'Mambo Italiano' — made her famous, but I would argue they almost obscured what she really was, a jazz singer of remarkable warmth and phrasing. The voice she rebuilt later in life, lower and wiser, is the one I keep returning to. Receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the very year she died feels like history scrambling to settle its debt. A small-town Kentucky girl who ended up defining an era of American song — that arc never stops moving me.

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Name (English)

Rosemary Clooney

Name (Japanese)

ローズマリー・クルーニー

Reading

ろーずまりー・くるーにー

Born

May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002

Origin

Maysville, Kentucky, United States

Occupation

singer / actor / jazz musician / screenwriter / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon

High school

Withrow High School

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Kentucky Women Remembered
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.rosemaryclooney.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Clooney
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466508

Tags

• Kentucky
• singer
• actor
• jazz musician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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