Lena Zavaroni. Lena Hilda Zavaroni[1] (4 November 1963 – 1 October 1999) was a Scottish child singer and a television show host.
With her album Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me) at ten years of age, she is the youngest person in history to have an album in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart. [citation needed] Later in life she hosted TV shows and appeared on stage. From the age of 13 Lena suffered from anorexia nervosa which became clinical depression two years later at the age of 15. [citation needed] Lena died at the age of 35 from pneumonia. Life and career[edit] Early life[edit] Career in music[edit] Lena also sang at a Hollywood charity show with Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball in 1974, at which Ball commented, "You’re special.
Stage and television career[edit] While attending London's Italia Conti Academy stage school, Lena met and became long-term friends with child star Bonnie Langford. On Wednesday 6 September 1978,[6] the BBC broadcast Lena Zavaroni on Broadway. Later years[edit] Health[edit] Funeral[edit] The Official Lena Zavaroni Fan Club (Est. 1975) - www.lenazavaroni.co.uk - Scottish Favourites - Lena Zavaroni ... Bla'antir's Ain Website. Lena Zavaroni (1963 - 1999. Lena Zavaroni Sings "Mama" on Tonight Show. Lena sings 'Ma! he's making eyes at me' - Top of the pops - 1974. Lena Zavaroni & Bonnie Langford Sing A Medley Of Songs From THe Lena & Bonnie Show 1978. Lena Zavaroni duets with Spike Milligan.
Lena Zavaroni Online Memorial. Lena Zavaroni - The Brightest Star - 1963 To 1999 - http//www.lenazavaroni.com. Song of the day: Lena Zavaroni - Going Nowhere. By Holly Combe // 13 August 2012, 08:00 Tags: despair, humanity, Lena Zavaroni, Music, performance, showbiz, society, Song of the day, women I referred to a Soc Theory article about Billie Holiday's music in my piece about 'You let Me Down' and there's a quote in it that also partly strikes me in relation to Lena Zavaroni: "Many did not, and still do not, recognize her strength, as the most common publications written about her 'highlight drug addiction, alcoholism, feminine weakness, depression, lack of formal education, and other difficulties unrelated to her contributions as an artist'.
" (my emphasis) Zavaroni may not have had the same life experiences as Billie Holiday but it seems that, like Holiday, any discussion of her work as a performer is often interrupted by the issues she faced in her personal life and the spin the writer wants to put on them. Lena Zavaroni Discography at Discogs. Lena Zavaroni – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last. Lena Zavaroni. Child star Lena dies at 35. The family of former child singing prodigy Lena Zavaroni have told of their devastation after the star died aged 35, following a 22-year battle with anorexia.
Ms Zavaroni, who had been in hospital for several weeks, died after contracting pneumonia following an operation. Members of her family were with her when she died at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff, where she was being treated for depression. Ms Zavaroni, from Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, made her name with a five-week run on television's Opportunity Knocks in 1974. This was followed by the chart-topping Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me. At the age of 12 she sang for the Queen at a Royal Variety performance. But it was at the height of her fame that her tragic battle with anorexia began. Her cousin Margaret told Sky News: "It has been a long fighting battle for her, but she is at rest now.
" She said Lena was not depressed or sad but preferred to spend time alone than with big groups of people. Lena Zavaroni. Singer Lena Zavaroni, who has died aged 34, epitomised the potentially traumatic effects of child stardom.
A tiny girl with an enormous voice, she was feted by television viewers when in 1974, at the age of 10, she appeared on Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks and, uniquely, won the show five times in a row. One of the songs she performed on the programme - a precociously belting version of Ma He's Making Eyes At Me - became a hit record, and by the time she was 13 Zavaroni had appeared at the Royal Variety Show, worked with Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Barbra Streisand, and been a guest on the Johnny Carson Show. On British television, she had worked with Morecambe and Wise, and had her own series.
Already, however, she had begun to show signs of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, the illness from which she was to suffer for the rest of her life.