She married her high-school sweetheart, William Vincent, in 1943 and commenced her career singing with the Robert Shaw (conductor) Collegiate Chorale.
In 1948 she became a staff singer with Arthur Shimkin's newly-established Golden Records label.
Lloyd was one of the most prolific singers on the label and was often also featured as part of the Sandpipers, a Mitch Miller-led group that made many records for Golden.
She died of cancer in 1999 in Great Neck, where she and her husband had settled in 1949 after he built a house for them there.
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