Patti Page

<p>Clara Ann Fowler was born on November 8, 1927, in Claremore, Oklahoma, into an impoverished family of eleven children. Performing on Tulsa radio station KTUL, she adopted the stage name Patti Page. In 1947, she signed with Mercury Records.</p><p>During a 1948 musicians' strike, Page and producer Mitch Miller pioneered multi-track vocal overdubbing on 'Confess', harmonizing with herself—the first pop artist to do so. In 1950, her recording of <strong>'Tennessee Waltz'</strong> spent thirteen weeks at No. 1 on Billboard, sold over ten million copies, and became an official state song of Tennessee. Page charted 110 Billboard singles and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.</p>