Eydie Gormé Biography

Fast Facts

• Known as a singer, both as a solo performer and as part of a duo with husband Steve Lawrence
• Graduated from William Howard Taft High School in New York City and attended school at the same time as filmmaker Stanley Kubrick
• Is of Sicilian and Turkish descent
• Is related to singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka
• She and her husband were married in Las Vegas in December of 1957
• Met husband and frequent co-performer Steve Lawrence when the two were booked to the same episode of "The Tonight Show," then hosted by Steve Allen in 1953
• Died six days before her 85th birthday, following an undisclosed illness, at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas
• Released her debut record in 1950 with the Don Brown and the Tommy Tucker Orchestra
• Was fluent in both Ladino and Spanish, and worked for the United Nations as an interpreter
• Retired from performance in 2009
• She and her husband were known for their dry stage banter, and have been compared to that of Sonny and Cher