Georgia Gibbs

Georgia Gibbs (born Fredda Lipson Gibbons, later Fredda Gibson, her date of birth is alternately listed as 8/17/20 or 8/26/20 or 8/26/27) is an American popular singer.

Brought up in an orphanage in Worchester, Massachuse

Georgia Gibbs (born Fredda Lipson Gibbons, later Fredda Gibson, her date of birth is alternately listed as 8/17/20 or 8/26/20 or 8/26/27) is an American popular singer.

Brought up in an orphanage in Worchester, Massachusetts, Georgia Gibbs (then Fredda Gibbons) vowed to make a better life for herself and turned to singing as a means of realizing her dream. Blessed with a remarkable voice, began her professional career at the age of 12, and was singing in Boston's Raymor Ballroom the following year. She cut her first record with the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra in 1936 (when she could have been no older than 15 or 16 years old).