Annie Ross was a jazz singer with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, best known for her 1952 song “Twisted.”Ross was born in England to a family of vaudeville performers who immigrated to the U.S.
when she was four. She quickly won a movie contract and appeared as a child actress in movies including “Presenting Lily Mars” with Judy Garland (1922 – 1969).
Ross also wrote and performed music as a child, and she was not long out of her teens when she recorded “Twisted,” in which she added her own lyrics to the Wardell Gray tune of the same name in a style that would become known as vocalese.
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