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Gogi Grant (born Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg, September 20, 1924) is an United States of America|American popular music|popular singer.

Life and career
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the age of twelve she moved to Los Angeles, California. In California she won a teenage singing contest and appeared on television talent shows. In 1952 in music|1952 she began to record, using first the name "Audrey Brown" and later "Audrey Grant". She was given the name "Gogi" by Dave Kapp, the head of A&R|Artists and Repertory at RCA Records, who liked to patronize a restaurant called "Gogi's LaRue."

In 1955 in music|1955 she signed with a small record company, Era Records, and had her first Top 40|top ten chart-topper|hit with "Suddenly There's a Valley." 1956 in music|The next year, she had an even bigger hit (reaching Billboard magazine's Chart-topper|number one spot) with "The Wayward Wind" and she was voted most popular female vocalist by Billboard magazine. This single returned to the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.

In 1957 she supplied the vocals for Ann Blyth in the film|movie portrayal of Helen Morgan's life. The soundtrack occasioned her return to RCA (the soundtrack album climbed to #25 in the Billboard Billboard Top 200|album chart), where she also had a minor hit the following year with "Strange A... read all