{"id":6170,"date":"2023-06-10T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2023-06-11T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T12:31:22","slug":"from-small-town-roots-to-big-city-dreams-the-legacy-of-peggy-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/from-small-town-roots-to-big-city-dreams-the-legacy-of-peggy-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"From Small Town Roots to Big City Dreams \u2013 the Legacy of Peggy Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWhile she might have moved away to expand her career as a singer and songwriter, Peggy always continued to remember her North Dakota upbringing. \u2018She was a survivor, taking some pretty dire circumstances and turning them into a beautiful body of work,\u2019 [said Holly Foster Wells]. \u2018But she certainly didn\u2019t do it alone, she did it with a lot of help from people from North Dakota. She couldn\u2019t have gotten out of there and gone on to do all these things if she didn\u2019t have people giving her rides to KOVC, if she didn\u2019t have people lending her gowns to perform, or just helping her and supporting her. They were all just so supportive of her, especially in a time when it was a heavily male-dominated industry. She never lost that sense of gratitude for where she came from. It didn\u2019t matter, even though she sang for the Queen Mother in London, she was still the girl from North Dakota, and she never forgot her roots.\u201d [Source: Tami Olsen, Valley City Times-Record<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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