Jo Stafford

(1917-2008)

American singer

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Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, the record becoming the first by a female artist to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart.

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Born	Jo Elizabeth Stafford 12 November 1917 Coalinga, California, USA
Died	16 July 2008 (aged 90) her home in Century City area of Los Angeles
Zodiac	Scorpio
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