The following year, her father married Gwendolyn Peterson and on September 23, 1934, her half-sister Sheila Emily Rainey was born.
[2] By February 1949, the 10" single "Gotta Love You 'Til I Die" / "Headin' For A Heartache" was released on Gold Medal GM 949.
"[4] In January, 1951, she was appearing regularly at New York's Chez Vito, a small venue situated in the Hotel Maurice.
In a courtroom before Judge Peter Horne, George Roach, a white policeman, testified in court that he had phoned her for a date.
Special Sessions Judge Edward J. Breslin granted the suspension on condition she return to Boston with her father.
[9] Some three months after her last court appearance, it was reported in the April 30, 1953 issue of Jet that she was making a sensational comeback at the exclusive Storyville club in her Boston hometown.