Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley, known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is perhaps best known in the United States for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", a United States holiday standard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth11 December 1944
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.
I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.
I gave up my childhood for a career.
The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.
I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.
I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.
I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.
Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.
I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.