Edna Savage (21 April 1936 – 31 December 2000
) was a
traditional pop
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singer
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in the
United Kingdom
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.
Savage was born in
Warrington
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,
Lancashire
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,
England
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.
She had two elder sisters. Her father was a landscape gardener; her mother an amateur singer. She left school at 15 (common in the UK in those days). At first she trained as a
telephone
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operator, but after a few bands had her sing for them locally, she quit the telephone job to sing professionally.
She auditioned twice for the
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before making her first broadcast, in 1954. She
" in 1956, which made it to No. 19 in the
.
. In addition to being briefly married to fellow singer
, Savage married three more times.
She died at the age of 64.