Born as Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee endured her mother's death in childhood and moved with her family to Nortonville and then Wimbledon before singing on radio in Valley City and Fargo, where program director Ken Kennedy gave her the name Peggy Lee. After moves between North Dakota, California, Minneapolis, Palm Springs, and Chicago, she sang with Sev Olsen, Will Osborne, the Four of Us, and the Benny Goodman Orchestra, made her first commercial recording, and reached early success with "Somebody Else is Taking My Place" and "Why Don't You Do Right?" She appeared in films, on radio, and on television, married musician Dave Barbour, recorded hit songs including "Manana," hosted and headlined radio programs, and later returned to North Dakota for the Winter Show and to see her father for the last time. Her career continued through co-starring in "The Jazz Singer," recording "Black Coffee," co-writing songs for Disney's "Lady and the Tramp," appearing in "Pete Kelly's Blues" and receiving an Academy Award nomination, later marriages to Brad Dexter, Dewey Martin, and Jack Del Rio, major hits including "Fever" and "Is That All There Is?" performances for Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, a Broadway production, honors from the Songwriters Guild of America, ASCAP, the Society of Singers, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a lawsuit against Walt Disney Productions over royalties that broke ground for artists' rights, a final commercial recording with Benny Carter, two Grammy Awards, and her death in 2002, after which her music continued to be valued and re-released.