American jazz vocalist Darby Dizard was born in San Francisco, adopted in her years, and "whisked away" to live with her new family in a sleepy town in Oregon. Her mother was a "Southern Belle" while her father was a WWII fighter-pilot turned sportscaster turned lawyer. At home, records were played constantly and she loved to memorize
Nat King Cole songs. While
Dean Martin was her mother's favorite, Dizard herself loved
Frank Sinatra. Her parents' marriage fell apart when she was twelve. Longing for "the sophistication of New York", she went o…
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