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Jo Stafford (November 12 1917 – July 16 2008<ref name="Obituary">{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stafford18-2008jul18,0,5487939.story |title=Jo Stafford, 90; singer, recording artist entertained GIs during World War II |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date= 2008-07-17</ref>), born Jo Elizabeth Stafford, was an United States|American jazz singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her human voice|voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She was also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, having won a Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album|Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston) for their album ''Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris''.
Early years
Stafford was born in Coalinga, California to Grover Cleveland Stafford and Anna York Stafford, a distant cousin of Sergeant Alvin York. Originally, she wanted to become an opera singer and studied voice as a child. However, because of the economic Great Depression, she abandoned that idea and joined her sisters Christine and Pauline in a popular music|popular vocal group, "The Stafford Sisters", which performed on Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles radio station KHJ (AM)|KHJ.
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