Mary Kaye (musician)

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Mary Kaye (born January 9, 1924 in Detroit as Mary Ka'aihue , † February 17, 2007 in Las Vegas ) was an American musician and artist , with Hawaiian roots, who was particularly active in the 1950s and 1960s.

Live and act

Kaye was born in 1924 as Mary Kaʻaihue, the descendant of the last Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani . Her family was already entrenched in show business .

Kaye first played as a guitarist in her father's band. From the 1940s to the 1960s, Kaye was touring with her band Mary Kaye Trio (with Frank Ross and Norman Kaye), with whom she also recorded a number of singles and albums such as Music on a Silver Platter (Decca, 1956), On the Sunset Strip (Warner Bros, 1959) and For the Record (Verve, 1962). Her career gave her the nickname First Lady of Rock and Roll . In 1956, she and her band for the Fender company did an advertising campaign for a new Stratocaster guitar with a unique color scheme (blonde wooden body and gold hardware), later known as The Mary Kaye Strat (and then also mass-produced) has been.

Even before Louis Prima she founded the “Las Vegas lounge phenomenon” as an event in which a band played the whole night to dance and the audience danced through the night in a relaxed atmosphere. Kaye has also appeared on numerous television shows with stars such as Ken Murray , Eddie Fisher , Perry Como , Rosemary Clooney , Dinah Shore and Jack Parr throughout her career ; She was also in soundies like Stuff Like That There (1945, directed by William Forest Crouch), films like Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1956) and in the TV series 77 Sunset Strip (1959). She also played a Fender Strat in the 1956 film Cha Cha Cha Boom (1956, directed by Fred F. Sears ).

She died of lung failure in a Las Vegas hospital on February 17, 2007 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Mary Kaye Stratocaster. In: Guitar & Bass . July 8, 2017, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Marc Myers: Mary Kaye's Swing and Sway. Jazzwax, August 13, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ The evolution of the Las Vegas lounge act. In: Las Vegas Sun . September 25, 2017, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mary Kaye in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
personal data
SURNAME Kaye, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaʻaihue, Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician (vocals, guitar)
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2007
Place of death Las Vegas