Later a graduate of North Texas State University. While there, she won a radio show contest and earned a six-month contract with MGM. It got me a few more gigs. In 2012, Ross was the subject of a documentary, "Annie Ross: No One But Me." In 1963, she married actor Sean Lynch and they opened the short-lived nightclub Annie's Room in London, featuring Nina Simone, Anita O'Day, Erroll Garnder and others.Unconvinced the song would amount to anything, Ross returned to her family's vaudeville act in Scotland. She first appeared on stage at age 3 and became known as the "Scottish Shirley Temple. Graduated at a small school named Fairless High School which is in Navarre, Ohio where he was known as Lou Marini Jr. His dad Lou Marini wrote the school's alma mater. But during that time, Ross' drug habit consumed her.At 19, Ross had an affair with the jazz drummer Kenny Clarke and gave birth to a son, Kenny Clarke Jr. She returned to the U.S. with her baby, but decided she couldn't raise him alone and work late nights and she sent him to live with his uncle in Pittsburgh.At 14, she won a contest held by Hawthorne School by singing her own song, "Let's Fly," which Johnny Mercer went on to record. While in Europe, she worked as a revue performer and a band singer.
She spent the next five years working in jazz clubs and theater, performing alongside Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. "So I came back. But her real passion was singing.After a near-fatal heroin overdose, she stayed in London in May 1962 to get sober. Fairless bestows the annual Lou Marini Award in honor of Marini Sr. who died in May 2008. Lou Marini, Actor: The Blues Brothers. "Ross and Hendricks reunited in the late 1990s and performed together off and on until his death in 2017. They recorded "Sing A Song of Basie," featuring lyrics over Basie songs, and the trio stayed at the top of the jazz polls for four years. "But by the late 1960s she was struggling again. His father, Lou Marini Sr., was the high school's band director and wrote the school song. In the mid-1980s, director Robert Altman became enamored of Ross after his wife befriended the singer. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. While she was gone "Twisted" became an underground hit.But Ross flew a little too high, and for many years, she struggled with drug addiction, bankruptcy and unemployment. Her parents were convinced of Ross' star quality and sent her to find fame in Los Angeles with her mother's sister, Scottish American singer Ella Logan. In five years, they recorded six albums, establishing the jazz style known as "vocalese" and touring the world as one of the first racially integrated singing groups in popular music.Copyright © 2020, Chicago TribuneIn 1952, after two tough years scrounging for work, Prestige Records producer Bob Weinstock asked her to write lyrics to a jazz solo. "Annie Ross has that feeling you can't learn in no school, that feeling that the men in the old Basie band had from birth," her former partner, the late Jon Hendricks, once said.In 1958, Ross was hired to join Hendricks and be-bop singer and arranger Dave Lambert.
Lou Marini is a member of the following lists: American record producers, 1945 births and American session musicians.. Help us build our profile of Lou Marini! Both Lou Marini Sr. and Lou Marini Jr. were inducted into the Fairless Alumni Association Hall of Honor in May 2010.