When Eydie Gorme passed away, her net worth was $10 million.
She was a well-known American vocalist who began her career by singing with The Don Costa Orchestra before branching out into solo appearances.
On August 16, 1928, the American vocalist was born in The Bronx. Emmy and Grammy-winning singer who released solo songs like “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” in addition to duets with her life partner.
Her parents were an immigrant tailor and Fortune Gorme, and she used to go by the name Edith Gorme.
She and her older siblings, Corene and Robert, grew up speaking Spanish fluently because both of her parents were Jews of Turkish descent with Spanish lineage.
She was the only one of the three to pass up the chance to take music lessons, despite the fact that her siblings had done so.
Gorme began singing when she got separated from her parents in a store at age three and joined a kids’ radio show that was being broadcast there.
She participated in most of the school’s musical performances while she was a student at William Howard Taft High School in the Bronx, New York, was chosen as the “prettiest, most lively cheerleader,” and performed on the weekends with her buddy Ken Greengrass’s band.
Eydie Gorme’s wealth was evidence of her toil and effort in the music business.
Following a brief and unknown illness, Gorme passed away at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Centre in Las Vegas on August 10, 2013, six days before her 85th birthday. A local news reporter broke the initial news of her passing.
In Los Angeles, California’s Hillside Memorial Park, she was laid to rest.
Steve Lawrence, the spouse of Eydie Gorme, was born on July 8, 1935, in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighbourhood. Max Liebowitz, his father, was a cantor and a house painter.
When Lawrence performed at the synagogue as a child, his singing talent became apparent. However, due to the voice changes caused by puberty, he was forced to stop singing for a while.
He thereafter focused on music education and developed his skills on the piano and saxophone. He also started writing and orchestrating his own tunes.
Lawrence began touring music publishing companies in Manhattan’s Brill Building after taking singing lessons in high school.
He rapidly secured a singing gig for demo records. Eydie Gorme’s spouse took the first names of his two nephews and merged them to form his stage name, Steve Lawrence.
He received first place in his 1951 Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts amateur television series audition.
He informed the public of his early-stage Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis in 2019.