Is Brenda Lee still married?
The famous Brenda Mae Tarpley, known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop, and country music, she 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.
Brenda Lee was born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11, 1944, in the charity ward of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents Annie Grayce Yarbrough and Ruben Lindsey Tarpley. She weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces at birth. Lee attended grade schools wherever her father found work, primarily between Atlanta and Augusta. Her family was poor. As a child, she shared a bed with her brother and sister in a series of three-room houses without running water. Life centered on her parents finding work, their family, and the Baptist church, where she began singing solos every Sunday.
Is Brenda Lee still married?
Lee is still married to her husband Ronnie Shacklett and there is no rumor about them being separated. The two met at a November 1962 Bo Diddley and Jackie Wilson concert at Nashville’s Fairgrounds Coliseum and married him less than six months later, on April 24, 1963. The wo have been married for 60 years now. Lee and Shacklett have two daughters, Jolie and Julie (named after Patsy Cline’s daughter), and three grandchildren, Taylor, Jordan, and Charley.
Lee is also the cousin (by way of her mother’s second marriage) to singer Dave Rainwater from The New Christy Minstrels.
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