Anna Marly

b. Anna Betoulinski, 30 October 1917, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 15 February 2006, Palmer, Alaska, USA. Following the execution of Marly's father during the Russian revolution, the family fled the country, eventually finding their way to France; at the time she was aged one. She became interested in music, studying song and dance and as a young teenager danced with a ballet company in Monte Carlo. By her late teens she was living in Paris, singing in clubs and as often as not presenting music that she had composed herself. She adopted her stage name while still in Paris. Marri...