Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens ( born August 8, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York as Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingolia ) is an American actress and singer.
Life
Her father was a musician named Peter Ingolia, her mother a singer named Eleanor McGinley. The artist name of her father was Teddy Stevens. The last name Stevens was later adopted by the daughter. When her parents divorced, Connie Stevens moved in with her grandparents. At the age of eight, she attended a Catholic elementary school. As the daughter of a musical family, she took an early interest for singing and founded a quartet called "The Foremost". The other three members were later famous under the name of "The Lettermen ".
1953 Stevens moved with her father to Los Angeles. The following year, she founded another vocal group: "The three Debs ". She attended a professional school of singing and appeared in local theater. Stevens also began to appear in films. After she appeared in four B movies, she was discovered by Jerry Lewis. A short time later, she was taken by the Warner Brothers contract. Nevertheless, she let her music career not rest and published in 1958 her first album: " Conchetta ". Three of the songs contained on it were too small hits.
With increasing awareness of the television also increased their success as a singer. Your first success as a singer, she had 1959 in a duet with Ed Byrnes, the " Kookie " in the television series " 77 Sunset Strip", with whom she recorded the title Kookie, Kookie ( Lend Me Your Comb), which in the charts at # 4 rose. In 1960, she had reached her first solo hit with " Sixteen Reasons ", the number 3 of the hit parade. Although published until 1965, several singles, such as Too Young To Go Steady and Now That You've Gone, but to the success of their first two albums, they could not repeat again.
In 1963 she married her first husband, the actor James Stacy. They settled in 1967 divorced. In the same year she married singer Eddie Fisher, but this marriage did not last long and was divorced in 1969.
Connie Stevens is the mother of actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher. In 1994 they took with them the plate " radition: A Family at Christmas " on.