Brenda Lee was born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11, 1944, in the charity ward of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents Annie Grayce Yarbrough and Ruben Lindsey Tarpley. She weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces at birth.
Lee attended grade schools wherever her father found work, primarily between Atlanta and Augusta. Her family was poor. As a child, she shared a bed with her brother and sister in a series of three-room houses without running water. Life centered on her parents finding work, their family, and the Baptist church, where she began singing solos every Sunday.
Brenda Lee children: Meet Jolie Shacklett, Julie Shacklett
Jolie Shacklett and Julie Shacklett are the two daughters God blessed her with when she got married to her husband Ronnie Shacklett. Julie Shacklett age is 56 born in 1966 and Jolie Shacklett is 51 born in 1971.
Lee met Ronnie Shacklett at a November 1962 Bo Diddley and Jackie Wilson concert at Nashville’s Fairgrounds Coliseum and married him less than six months later, on April 24, 1963.
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