Brenda Lee

BRENDA LEE. American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music and scored 47 US chart hits during the 1960s. She is ranked fourth in that decade (surpassed only by Elvis Presley / The Beatles and Ray Charles). She is perhaps best known in the United States for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry" and 1958's "Rock'in Around The Christmas Tree"  a US holiday standard for more than 50 years. At 4 ft 9 inches tall (approximately 145 cm), she received the nickname Little Miss Dynamite in 1957 after recording the song "Dynamite" and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following. Her popularity faded in the late 1960s as her voice matured, but she continued a successful recording career by returning to her roots as a country singer with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s