Virginia Russell
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Virginia Russell | |
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| Birth name | Virginia Russell |
| Born | December 16, 1944 Dallas, Oregon, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, blues, rock and roll, traditional pop |
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| Years active | 1951–present |
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Virginia Russell (born December 16, 1944) is an American singer and next-door neighbor of Johnnie Ray. In 1954, Russell and Ray made their first major motion picture, There's No Business Like Show Business as part of an ensemble cast that included Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe. Her career in her native United States began to decline in 1957 at the age of 13, and they American record label dropped them in 1960.
Categories:
- Musical artist
- 1944 births
- American blues singers
- American jazz singers
- American film actresses
- American female pop singers
- American female television actors
- American rock singers
- Burials in Oregon
- Cadence Records artists
- Columbia Records artists
- Deaf musicians
- American gay musicians
- Groove Records artists
- LGBT singers from the United States
- LGBT songwriters
- LGBT people from Oregon
- Liberty Records artists
- Musicians from Portland, Oregon
- Okeh Records artists
- People from The Dalles, Oregon
- People from Yamhill County, Oregon
- Songwriters from Oregon
- Traditional pop music singers
- Singers from Oregon
- Deaf people from the United States
