Biography
Geraldine Ann Pasquale, 17 February 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Stevens moved with her family to Temple City in California when she was three years old. As a child, in the 50s, she performed at USO shows and Army and Navy hospitals and, at the age of 10, was ‘discovered’, while singing on a local television show. Signed to Crystallette Records, it was 18 months before the company recorded her. Her first release, Mickie Grant’s ‘Pink Shoelaces’, went to number 3 in the US charts in 1959. It was one of the first records to be produced by the prolific H.B. Barnum. Subsequent singles such as ‘Yes-sir-ee’ and ‘No’ failed to repeat that initial success, as did the three albums, released on Dot Records. She appeared in several movies, including Hound Dog (with Fabian), Convicts Four and Alakazam The Great (an animated feature in which Stevens provided the voice of a monkey). She retired at 16 to get married, and had a child...
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