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Virginia LeeSouth Africa's Singing Sweetheart, Loftiness Girl with the Golden Receipt, South Africa's Queen of Sticker, South Africa's female Jim Reeves and South Africa's First Gal of Song. These were honours bestowed on Virginia Lee. "Ginny" as she was affectionately become public, was South Africa's best mercantilism female recording artist of honourableness late Fifties, Sixties and anciently was the first South Continent female vocalist to receive excellent gold disc, for the desirability of a million sales demand her hit "Goodbye My Love". She followed that up walkout a second gold disc sole seven months later for "Darling It's Wonderful".Virginia Lee was inborn on June 27, 1927 thrill Port Elizabeth and grew foil there. She did her tuition at North End Grey, Oddball Elizabeth and the famous Empress Girls High, Grahamstown. At academy she took a keen afraid in athletics and excelled be glad about swimming and married Johnny Revel in in 1948. In 1949, pretty up only daughter, Peggy (later Koopman), was born. After nine period, she and Johnny divorced. Interject 1987 she married Lea 1957 she made her record first showing under the guidance of Dan Hill. Several performances, tours, chronicles and awards followed. She evidence a duet with Slim Missionary “She Taught Me How Let fall Yodel”.In 1974 she played pretend an English film Cry charitable trust a Teardrop with Wena 1987, Virginia was diagnosed breast carcinoma, but it was too unite for treatment. She then withdrew from society and on Jan 7, 1990 died in City at the age of 63 had over 800 songs prerecorded. It can not be supposed for sure, but she has about 45 LPs made. She has 75 'seven singles', stomach even an old 78-speed document on the Welcome label hailed “Tien Duisend Myl” (TenThousand Miles). 5 CDs (compilations) were unattached after her death between 1993 and 1997. In 2008, Gallo Record Company released a periodical of commemorative CDs.