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On June 3, 1962, Wanda's first of four children, Meta (Young) Ventress, was born (Florence Ballard of the Supremes substituted for her in the Marvelettes during this period). On December 18, 1963, Young married her longtime boyfriend Bobby Rogers, a member of the Miracles, in Detroit and became known professionally as Wanda Rogers. The union ...
Wanda Rogers, the widow of country music legend Kenny Rogers, has found love again. Wanda Rogers opened up about her private life to People, revealing that before he died the "Gambler" singer once ...
The show's origins were completely by happenstance. In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become ...
Wanda and Alex privately tied the knot in October of 2008, just one month before the Friendsgiving star publicly came out as gay at a same-sex marriage rally in Las Vegas. Over 15 years later ...
Wanda LaVonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) [1] [2] is an American singer and songwriter. Since the 1950s, she has recorded and released music in the genres of rock , country and gospel . She was among the first women to have a career in rock and roll, recording a series of 1950s singles that helped give her the nickname "The Queen of ...
Wanda Jean Allen (August 17, 1959 – January 11, 2001) was a murderer who was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29, her longtime girlfriend. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [ 1 ]
On August 25, 1980, Wanda Richert made her Broadway debut as Peggy Sawyer in the original Broadway production of 42nd Street. [3] However, the opening night triumph was overshadowed by tragedy. After a lengthy curtain call and a standing ovation , producer David Merrick came onstage and announced that Gower Champion , the director and ...
Wanda Webb Holloway (born 1954) is an American woman from Channelview, Texas who was convicted of attempting to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter's ...