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Doris Day

American actress and singer (1922–2019)

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Doris Day was an American actress and singer who had a long career in entertainment from the mid-20th century until her death in 2019. She remains a notable figure in Hollywood history for her work in film and music during that era.

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Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer. Her career spanned nearly 50 years, during which she became one of the most popular female singers of the 1940s and 1950s and later one of Hollywood’s most successful box-office stars in the 1950s and 1960s. She was known for her “girl next door” screen image and her distinctive singing voice. Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Doris+Da

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Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019 ) was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice.

Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Her recording of "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" became known as her signature song and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011.