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More supplementary information about Timi Yuro added by most of my video's, see more info at the rightside....BIOGRAPHY: Rosemary Timotea Yuro was born into an Italian-American family in Chicago.Her Italian grandparents spoke no English when they came to the U.S.A. The immigration officer at Ellis Island registered their familyname a Yuro,as he could not understand the Italian pronunciation of Aurro.Timi was the Yuro's second child.Timi's nanny, Mrs.Houston-who was previously Mrs.Yuro's nanny-was to have a tremendous influence on Timi's career. Whenever there was an opportunity, she took the young Timi to performances by Mildred Bailey and Dinah Washington where the audience was treated to blues and soul music. She was encouraged by her mother to take operatic training. Her first demo, recorded when she was eight years old,happens to be an opera recording called Butterfly. In 1952, the family moved to Los Angeles, where they opened an initially unsuccessful restaurant, in which Timi worked. But her obsession with music led her to be sent to Lilian Goodman, the voice-coach. Amazed by the impoverished teenager's vocal power, Goodman gave her free lessons.In 1954,she started as a waitress in a restaurant to earn some money for the Yuro family.Thanks to a little prevarication,got inside a few night clubs and started her first public performances.After a few months, her mother found out about Timi's secret activities,she followed her daughter to the club, during Timi's performance,her mother stepped from the audience and shouted,This is your last song,young lady!Ever-confident, Timi persuaded her parents to turn their restaurant into a music venue, and its prospects changed. Even Elvis Presley reportedly went to eat pizza at Alvoturno's. In 1959, Yuro signed up with Liberty Records, though, for two frustrating years, she was given bland, inappropriate material. She eventually forced her way into a board meeting, where she sang Hurt,to Liberty's president, Al Bennett. Suitably impressed, he arranged for her to be recorded by Clyde Otis. No one understood her like Otis, Yuro recalled, apart from her mother. Hurt was a number four US pop hit in September 1961. Still uncertain about how to market Yuro, Liberty encouraged her to record more emotional ballads, including Smile and Cry, originally recorded by Johnny Ray, with whom Yuro was paired to record a version of I Believe. But her interest in R&B resulted in Count Everything.This direction was emphasised in 1962, when Yuro's recording of What's A Matter Baby was mixed by Phil Spector. A subsequent single, The Love Of A Boy, was arranged and co-written by Burt Bacharach.Impressed by her voice, Frank Sinatra asked Yuro to support him on his 1961 Australian tour. As she moved restlessly between cutting-edge and middle-of-the-road material, she started recording country material, her soulful approach benefiting songs like Hank Cochran's Make The World Go Away and She's Got You, plus Permanently Lonely and Are You Sure, both written by Willie Nelson, whom Yuro's mother had fed when he was particularly desperate. During 1963, Yuro visited Europe, establishing a dedicated following in the Netherlands, Italy and Britain. In 1963, a switch to Mercury Records failed to score any major hits, but she did record what she considered her finest album, the Quincy Jones-produced The Amazing Timi Yuro. Back with Liberty in 1968 Yuro recorded Something Bad On My Mind, with Les Reed and Barry Mason in London. After her marriage in 1969, Yuro's career took second place to the raising of her daughter, Milan. 1979 she was diagnosed with throat cancer,but recovered to cut several LP's for the Dutch market.The LP All alone am I (triple platinum) brought her from nearly forgotten obscurity to mayor stardom in The Netherlands.Willie Nelson repaid old favours, financing and appearing on her final album, Timi Yuro Today. May '85 she was forced to undergo a tracheotomy operation, effectly ending her singing career.She lost a part of a lung in 1997,valiantly she fought cancer, but in 2004, she succumbed to braincancer. Her voice will never be stilled. Timi Yuro was one of the most powerful, passionate, committed and emotional singers ever put on record. her idol Dinah Washington said of her,'Timi's voice doesn't come from her throat,but from her heart.She doesn't just sing the song, she lives it'.Timi described herself as,'A stylist rather than a popsinger, a stylist is a real singer who has their own particular bag.It may take longer to get your particular style over,but in the end it's wort it'.The group of Yurophiles know that she was right-and the rest of the world will discover this tremendously talented diva who was simply ahead of her time.She is survived by her husband and her daughter Milan; three grandchildren Sienna, Nico and Italia and brother, Tony. -----Timi Yuro born August 4, 1940 died March 30, 2004