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by Marshall Berges<\/p>\n

Seated at a Steinway baby grand, snapping her fingers and swaying almost imperceptibly, the champagne blonde flickers a smile and touches the piano keys.<\/p>\n

Striking chords to accompany herself, she sings songs old and new in a seductively breathy style. Now soft and delicate, now husky and driving, the velvet voice of Peggy Lee rolls smoothly from one era to another, reaching back to the golden oldies and gliding forward to contemporary tunes.<\/p>\n

Wide-eyed, smooth of skin, high cheekbones hinting at a gift of humor, her smile often outlines a sweet sadness. Those who know her best are touched by her vulnerability. They see in her poignant expression traces of suffering, the signs of search by a woman touched deeply by life\u2019s mysteries and reaching out to find answers. With a glance here and a look there, she sends off signals that seem to say the questions are never-ending, but in the troubled game of life, she is making peace with herself.<\/p>\n

Audiences often sense this. Peggy Lee\u2019s depth, along with her easy versatility with songs of different eras, have led to enduring success. She has been a singing superstar for more than three decades, a perfectionist whose popularity keeps building. She spends more than six months a year touring concert halls around the world, playing to packed houses.<\/p>\n

Born Norma Egstrom, daughter of a railway station agent in Jamestown, North Dakota, she lost her mother when she was four. Norma searched for her through childhood, singing songs that might lure her mother to return.<\/p>\n

She discovered a special joy singing in the church choir and the high school glee club. At 17, encouraged by praise for her winning way with music, armed with $18 and a railroad pass borrowed from her father, she boarded a train for California.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terribly shy and na\u00efve and didn\u2019t even know where to find a place to sing.\u201d She chased away fear with laughter as she drifted from Balboa to Hollywood, working as a short-order cook, waitress and carnival spieler. Returning to North Dakota, she found a singing job at a Fargo radio station. There the manager christened her Peggy Lee.<\/p>\n

She traveled as a vocalist with bands, and on tour landed in Palm Springs. At a nightclub she was unable to shout above the noise of the audience, and with impish humor she lowered her voice. The lower and softer it turned, the quieter the audience grew. The experience helped to shape her distinctive singing style.<\/p>\n

Peggy joined Benny Goodman\u2019s band in 1941, and the following year she recorded her first big hit, \u201cWhy Don\u2019t You Do Right?\u201d She followed with a parade of smash songs, including \u201cLover,\u201d \u201cMa\u00f1ana,\u201d \u201cGolden Earrings,\u201d \u201cMy Old Flame\u201d and \u201cIs That All There Is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Married and divorced four times, she is a grandmother who projects a youthful vitality, spends her off-hours reading widely, writing poetry, sculpting and painting. She lives in a rambling glass-walled house equipped with an elaborate soundproof recording studio. The house has a 60-foot living\/dining area, light and airy and brightened with a sea of colorful pillows and an exquisite collection of Meissen acquired on her travels.<\/p>\n

Q: What\u2019s the quality of your life on the road?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I\u2019m inclined to be cautious and hermitlike, not out of a dislike for people \u2013 I have friends all over the world \u2013 but out of a need for self-preservation. I\u2019m always glad to see friends after a performance, but I also know that I need a certain amount of rest, because the traveling experience takes its toll. So I\u2019m careful to spend a quiet time in the morning and afternoon, saving my strength for the evening performance.<\/p>\n

Q: Are the evenings long?<\/p>\n

Peggy: In some concerts I\u2019ll do as many as 40 numbers. In Las Vegas I\u2019ll do two shows a night with perhaps 20 numbers at each performance. This takes an enormous amount of strength. Searching my life to find the source of this strength, I think it comes partly from ability to laugh at myself, not taking myself too seriously, and partly from growing up in North Dakota.<\/p>\n

It was a very bleak and difficult existence there, from 40 below in the winter to 110 in the summer. In those extremes I had to laugh to keep my sanity. The environment also gave me extra physical endurance that I\u2019d have missed in an easier climate. So, in a special sense, I\u2019ve always carried part of my earliest home life around with me.<\/p>\n

Q: And your present home?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I try to create the illusion, wherever I happen to be, that I\u2019ve taken my Los Angeles home with me. I can do it only on a tiny scale, but familiar surroundings are important to people who spend long stretches on the road.<\/p>\n

Anthony Quinn once told me that when he traveled in plays, he carried along paintings from home and put them up in his hotel room. Not equipped with his muscles, I try to create the effect of home with smaller touches. For example, I take along my own pillow, with a pink and white checked gingham cover, and a bolster. I also bring along a teacup and saucer, a teapot and books from my library, particularly books of humorous poems. If I\u2019m on a special diet, I carry my own food. Then, at each city on my tour, I\u2019ll buy some plants to enhance the feeling of being at home.<\/p>\n

Q: What do you do at home?<\/p>\n

Peggy: My life has several levels. I\u2019m intrigued by the riddles of our existence. I take a positive approach to the song \u201cIs That All There Is?\u201d There are always new meanings, new depths, new discoveries. I try to find my way, and even to grow a little, by reading a great deal. I\u2019ve made friends with books. Frequently I have the urge to sculpt and paint, but I have to plan that activity around periods when I won\u2019t be traveling.<\/p>\n

Q: What\u2019s the connection?<\/p>\n

Peggy: Delivering my songs. I use lots of hand motions and snapping of fingers. The illusion would be messy if I had sculpting clay or paint under my fingernails.<\/p>\n

I also look for time to write, partly because I like to write poetry and express myself on paper, partly because I enjoy the rhythm of typing. But there I have to be careful about broken fingernails. It seems like a silly detail, but a performer\u2019s total effect is what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n

I try to be physically active, and I\u2019d like to go mountain-climbing around Los Angeles, but I\u2019d get lost. I\u2019ve compromised by buying a pedometer and walking around my house. Usually there\u2019s an immediate practical reason for all the walking, but sometimes if I\u2019m looking for a spiritual lift, I\u2019ll just stroll around and gaze at pictures that have been painted by friends. I\u2019m always touched deeply by the creativity of others.<\/p>\n

Q: Do you watch any other singers when they perform?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I\u2019d like to, but it doesn\u2019t happen often, because generally we all work in different places at the same time. We\u2019re like ships that pass in the night. But I do take time to think about and reflect on the creative process in myself and others. Whether it\u2019s a doctor searching for scientific truth, a painter striking fresh images or a writer choosing words to achieve a comic effect, we\u2019re all trying to make personal statements.<\/p>\n

Q: How do you make yours?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I reach inside myself to find an experience or an emotion that others can relate to. For example, \u201cTouch Me in the Morning\u201d was a very successful song for Diana Ross, and then it faded away. Now I\u2019ve revived it by doing it differently. I see it as a quiet, dramatic ballad, because it crosses subtle ground, the pain of saying goodbye.<\/p>\n

I approach singing in the same way as sculpting. I try to go around a song, to get in back of it, looking for another dimension that will add depth and experience to creativity. Putting those qualities together, with a sense of humor, I can deal effectively with my fears.<\/p>\n

Q: What are the fears?<\/p>\n

Peggy: Never about me, but always about people I love, especially my daughter and her children. For example, I knew no fear when I left home at 17. To me it was a time for laughter. But my father must have been deeply worried about me. To his everlasting credit, he had faith that I\u2019d find my way.<\/p>\n

When my daughter and her children moved to their own place, I was filled with negative thoughts. But I remembered my father\u2019s faith in me and realized that my anxieties were groundless. Gradually I\u2019ve learned to recognize fear as a negative experience that can be replaced with positive thoughts.<\/p>\n

Q: In what other ways are you positive?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I\u2019m not bothered by the calendar. I can relate to people of any age. I remember using Franklin stoves and kerosene lamps, the Model A Ford and the Model T. That kind of experience has given me a perspective that money can\u2019t buy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m particularly sensitive to older people, perhaps because my mother died when I was very young and I was puzzled that I couldn\u2019t see her anymore. In time I discovered that life is a series of puzzles and mysteries, and I keep looking for answers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a very busy, inquisitive reader, almost as if I were still searching for an explanation of Mother\u2019s whereabouts. But my reading is positive, and my love for reading is a gift.<\/p>\n

Q: What\u2019s your gift to music?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I see it less as a gift than an expression of love between music and me. With that love I can interpret lyrics and bring out a feeling from way down inside myself. A singer builds an emotional bridge to an audience, and understanding travels across that bridge.<\/p>\n

Q: Just how well do you understand yourself?<\/p>\n

Peggy: Not nearly well enough. Sometimes I lose sight of the humor in a situation and I\u2019m abrupt or lose my temper with people who are very dear to me. If they don\u2019t listen to what I say, or if I have to repeat myself more than twice, I blow off steam. Afterward I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

Actually, when my voice is raised, no one need worry. It\u2019s only when I become quiet and terribly elegant that I\u2019m really angry. Fortunately, most of the time I\u2019m a happy person.<\/p>\n

Q: What makes you happy?<\/p>\n

Peggy: Simple things. By nature I\u2019m content with very little excitement. Because I spend so much time in the theatrical world, my idea of a lovely experience is to have a quiet evening at home, curled up with a good book. Books open new worlds to me, and I\u2019m sort of an eager explorer, always trying to make discoveries, always looking for ways to improve myself. I find those ways not in heavy-handed lessons in a textbook, but most often in a witty writer\u2019s perceptions.<\/p>\n

Q: How does humor help?<\/p>\n

Peggy: In countless ways. I\u2019ve had some serious illnesses caused by overwork, and I\u2019ve laughed my way back to life. I\u2019ve told doctors many times that if I weren\u2019t so healthy, I\u2019d be dead already.<\/p>\n

Once I had pneumonia and I was ordered not to leave my bed, but I wanted desperately to brush my teeth. I dragged myself to the bathroom very slowly and weakly. I took a portion of tooth-powder and, in the midst of gasping for air at the exertion, pulled the tooth-powder into my windpipe.<\/p>\n

My chest and throat made a terrible, explosive noise, and I thought, \u201cNow I\u2019ve killed myself.\u201d I lay on the bathroom floor, feeling no pain, and I decided that I\u2019d gone to heaven.<\/p>\n

About a minute later, when I realized that I had not done myself in but was still alive, it struck me as an hysterically funny experience. I learned long ago that life is a comedy or a tragedy, depending on how we choose to take it. I take comedy.<\/p>\n

Q: Where\u2019s your serious side?<\/p>\n

Peggy: I\u2019m serious about my work. I\u2019ve been singing for a great many years, and something in me \u2013 pride or ego or simply a debt to the audience \u2013 keeps me on a busy search for improvement. If I don\u2019t improve with each passing day and with each new song, I\u2019ll be standing still. But if I stand still, I\u2019ll actually go backward. I\u2019d rather retire before then.<\/p>\n

Right now I have no intention of retiring, and people tell me that I never will. But when the time arrives, I know I can do it, because I\u2019ve saved up enough painting, sculpting, writing and reading adventures for several lives. With that, and my gift of laughter, I\u2019ll get by.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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