Died On This Date (October 17, 2007) Teresa Brewer / Popular ’50s Vocalist
themusicsover Teresa Brewer (Born Theresa Breuer)
May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007
With some 600 recorded songs to her name, Teresa Brewer was one of America’s most prolific singers of the 1950s. Brewer began singing and dancing as early as two years old on various radio amateur shows. She was well at it when at just 12 years old, she decided to “retire” in order to go back to concentrate on her schooling. She released her first of many popular records in 1949. Over the course of her 20+ year career, she recorded with the likes of Liberace, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Dizzy Gillespie. Teresa Brewer died of a rare degenerative brain disease at the age of 76.
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