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phrasing and emotional intensity that she put into the words she sang, served to turn novelty tunes and light songs into definitive, bolero-based treatments.
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TV show. After that, she performed on a periodic basis on radio, universities and nostalgia shows until the early 1980s.
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singer and actress. A radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland, she made her professional debut as a
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singer in 1931. From the thirties onward her fame as a singer grew, she appeared in films and had her own
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in a church choral group at age nine, then made her professional debut at
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from 1954 to 1955. At this time, she received contract offers from
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in a couple of songs that were recorded in
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when she was only 15. Largely self-taught, she had a warm
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