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Teresa Brewer - Biography

  

Born in Toledo, Ohio, USA May 7 1931, of German ancestry, as Theresa Veronica Breuer. A sexy name already and she ain't even started.
Was musical from the start. Sang on local radio at age 2. Toured with a Major Bowes vaudeville troupe around North America from age 5 to 12. Had a local radio show in her teens.
Then said goodbye to school at age 16, a year before graduation, and started her career in New York as Teresa Brewer. Married Bill Monahan of NY in 1949 and then had her hit Music, Music, Music in 1950.
Voted favorite female singer in America in the early 1950s. Also considered America's Sweetheart. Starred in the 1953 movie Those Redheads From Seattle.
The hits stopped around 1960, but she kept recording and performing.
In 1972 she divorced Monahan and married Bob Thiele, who had first been her producer at Coral in the 1950s. Now he became her producer in this second phase of her career, where she moved into jazz. No more hits however.
Thiele died in 1996 and Teresa died on October 17 2007.
[The beginning dates for the Bowes show experience are not certain. Better info requested.]
Websites:
See the Teresa Brewer Center website for complete information, teresafans.org.
Facebook Fans Of Teresa Brewer.
Teresa Brewer On Stage live video performances on Youtube.

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