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Latina y Americana by Eydie Gormé released in 1997. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Latina Y Americana. Eydie Gorme Format: Audio CD. £4941. See all 2 formats and editions. Audio CD. £49.41 1 New from £49.41. Buy a CD or Vinyl record and get 90 days free Amazon Music Unlimited. With the purchase of a CD or Vinyl record dispatched from and sold by Amazon, you get 90 days free access to the Amazon Music Unlimited Individual plan.
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Gormé was born in the Bronx to Sephardic Jewish parents Nessim Hasdai Gormezano and Fortuna "Fortunee" Gormezano. Both her parents were born in Turkey. After graduating from high school, she attended night classes at City College.
After high school, Gormé worked as a translator, but on weekends she sang in a band led by Ken Greengrass. She appeared on the Spanish-language radio program Cita Con Eydie (A Date with Eydie), changing her name from "Edith" to "Edie" and then "Eydie" because people mispronounced "Edie". She considered changing her last name, but her mother told he...
Gormé and Lawrence had two sons. David Nessim Lawrence (b. 1960) is an ASCAP Award-winning composer who composed the score for High School Musical. Michael Robert Lawrence (1962–1986) died at the age of 23 of ventricular fibrillationfrom an undiagnosed heart condition. Gormé and Lawrence were in Atlanta, Georgia, at the time of their son's death, h...
Gormé died on August 10, 2013, at age 84, at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas following an undisclosed illness. She was interred at Hillside Memorial Parkin Los Angeles, California. Lawrence issued a statement: "Eydie has been my partner on stage and in my life for more than 55 years. I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and e...
Gormé was portrayed by Victoria Jackson in the popular Saturday Night Live skit "The Sinatra Group" in tandem with Mike Myersportraying her husband Steve Lawrence.
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group, We Got Uswith Steve Lawrence, 1960Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance, "If He Walked Into My Life", 1966Inducted with Steve Lawrence into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, winning the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, 1995Albums
Solo With Steve Lawrence With Trio Los Panchos 1. Canta en Español(1964) 2. More Amor(1965) 3. Navidad Means Christmas(1966) 4. Cuatro Vidas(1970)
Eydie Gormé at IMDbEydie Gormé at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLatina Y Americana. Import. Eydie Gorme Format: Audio CD. See all formats and editions. Audio CD. £53.30 1 Used from £52.22 1 New from £53.30. Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. Buy a CD or Vinyl record and get 90 days free Amazon Music Unlimited.
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Aug 31, 2019 · Eydie Gormé’s beloved 1964 collaboration with Trio Los Panchos, “Amor,” is one of those albums that doesn’t age. It is filled with 12 Latin-music standards, presented simply with an...
After a five year hiatus, Eydie returned to recording, focusing on the Latin market with the release of La Gorme. The album earned her a 1976 Grammy nomination for Best Latin Recording, an honor that would be repeated the following year for Muy Amigos , an album in which she collaborated with famed Latin singer Danny Rivera.
