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Lynn Roberts
Lynn Roberts has prevailed as one of the few stars to bridge the decades. Her dedication and success have provided us with a legacy of an endless flow of wonderful music from the big band era to the present.
Lynn started her exciting career with Charlie Spivak at the age of 15, beating out six other candidates for the job. Ms. Roberts spent one year with Charlie, a year with Vincent Lopez, five years with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, ten years with Benny Goodman and four years with Harry James. She also shared the spotlight with Sammy Kay for a year and a half, on the ABC show Music from Manhattan. Lynn sang with the Pied Pipers for many years. Her career momentum led her to stellar performances throughout the United State, Europe, Japan and Israel. Many famous clubs became routine stops on her busy schedule; The Caf� Rouge at the Statler Hotel in Manhattan, the Coconut Grove and the Palladium in L.A. and the renowned Paramount Theatre in New York with the famous Dorsey Brothers and Frank Sinatra. Lynn has the distinction of being the ONLY girl singer to have sung with all these superstar band leaders.
In 1978 producer Michael Bennet featured her as �Marlene� the girl singer in the Broadway production of Ballroom. It was there that critic Rex Reed said �Lynn Roberts sings like an angel, and the way she handles �Dreams�, the evening�s best song, is a thing of pure beauty.� In recent years Lynn has been deluged with requests for special appearances at jazz festivals, on major cruise lines, television specials, famous night spots, and private parties both here and abroad.
The symphony orchestras of Buffalo, Palm Beach, Corpus Christi and Albuquerque have featured Lynn in productions ranging from specials dedicated to Judy Garland, to the big band era. She will be appearing with Doc Sevrensen (another Tommy Dorsey alumnus) and symphony orchestras, doing a tribute to the big bands. When jazz festivals in North Carolina, Maryland, Finland and other areas are not using her talents, Ms. Roberts may find herself booked at the Rainbow Room, Tavern On The Green�s Chestnut Room, or with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Alabama Theatre in Myrtle Beach. Lynn has also been featured in two PBS specials that have aired frequently due to popular demand.
She recently completed her new CD. The Men In My Life, using the spectacular big band �Reunion�, made up of musicians from the �Air Men Of Note� and the �US Navy Commanders.� A critic said of Lynn�s recent performance with the Corpus Christi Symphony, �There was only one person who seemed to be having more fun than the audience, and that was Lynn.�
Born Leonore Theresa Raisig in Brooklyn, New York in 1935, Lynn was raised in Queens by parents at opposite poles of support for their precocious, pre-school singing daughter. Dad � an accountant who always longed for his own show-biz career, prevailed, and Lynn began performing in Vaudeville at age eight. It was there she appeared with such greats as Abbott and Costello and Roddy McDowell.
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