Liza Minnelli

Genres:	Action & Adventure • Comedy • Documentaries • Drama • Holiday & Seasonal • Kids & Family • Musicals & The Arts • Pop / Rock • Television • Vocals
Descriptive "tags":	female vocalists • jazz • cabaret • broadway • showtunes • musical • american
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • IMDb • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

Liza May Minnelli, 12 March 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA. Minnelli is an extremely vivacious and animated actress, singer and dancer, in films, concerts, musical shows and television. She was named Liza after the George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn song and May after the mother of her film-director father, Vincente Minnelli. Liza’s mother was showbusiness legend Judy Garland. On the subject of her first name, Miss Minnelli is musically quite precise: ‘It’s Liza with ‘zee’, not Lisa with an ‘s’/‘Cos Liza with a ‘zee’ goes ‘zzz’, not ‘sss’. She spent a good deal of her childhood in Hollywood, where her playmates included Mia Farrow, although she also reputedly attended over 20 schools in the USA and Europe. At the age of two-and-a-half, she made her screen debut in the closing sequence of In The Good Old Summer Time, as the daughter of the musical film’s stars, Garland and Van...

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