Georgia Brown

Georgia Brown was an English singer whose career embraced jazz and pop, as well as theater work and screen acting. She was born Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot in London's East End in 1933, to a Jewish immigrant family. She grew up to love jazz, and selected her stage name from the '20s standard "Sweet Georgia Brown." She made her way into performing in the early to mid-'50s without a lot of distinction, until 1956 when she was cast as Lucy in the London revival of The Threepenny Opera: it was a role that brought her to America a year later for the off-Broadway production of ...