{"id":10400,"date":"2020-06-18T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/vera-lynn-world-war-ii-forces-sweetheart-singer-dead-at-103\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:07:00","slug":"vera-lynn-world-war-ii-forces-sweetheart-singer-dead-at-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/vera-lynn-world-war-ii-forces-sweetheart-singer-dead-at-103\/","title":{"rendered":"#Vera Lynn, World War II Forces\u2019 Sweetheart singer, dead at 103"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Vera Lynn, World War II Forces\u2019 Sweetheart singer, dead at 103<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n LONDON \u2014 Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular \u201cForces\u2019 Sweetheart\u201d who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103.<\/p>\n

During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, smiling and crying with sentimental favorites such as \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again,\u201d and \u201cThe White Cliffs of Dover.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain\u2019s best-loved entertainers at the age of 103,\u2033 her family said in a statement. \u201cDame Vera Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, passed away earlier today, 18 June 2020, surrounded by her close family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynn possessed a down-to-earth app<\/a>eal, reminding servicemen of the ones they left behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was somebody that they could associate with,\u201d she once told The Associated Press. \u201cI was an ordinary girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tributes poured in from political leaders, entertainers and thousands of fans.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said her \u201ccharm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours. Her voice will live on to lift the hearts of generations to come.\u2033<\/p>\n

Lynn hosted a wildly popular BBC radio show during the war called \u201cSincerely Yours\u201d in which she sent messages to British troops abroad and performed the songs they requested. The half-hour program came on during the highly coveted slot following the Sunday night news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinston Churchill was my opening act,\u201d she once said.<\/p>\n

Lynn had thought the war would doom her chance of success.<\/p>\n

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Vera Lynn<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen war first started, when it was declared, I thought, \u2018Well there goes my career.\u2019 You know, I shall finish up in a factory or the army or somewhere,\u201d she recalled. \u201cYou imagined all the theaters closing down, which didn\u2019t happen except when the sirens sounded. And everybody, if they wanted to, they could stay in the theater and the show would go on.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September 2009, long after her retirement, Lynn topped the British album chart with a best hits collection titled \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again \u2014 The Very Best of Vera Lynn.\u201d It reached No. 1, despite competition from the release of remastered Beatles\u2019 albums.<\/p>\n

Amid this year\u2019s coronavirus outbreak, Lynn and opera singer Katherine Jenkins released a charity version of \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynn earned her nickname, \u201cThe Forces\u2019 Sweetheart,\u201d after coming top in a 1939 Daily Express poll that asked servicemen to name their favorite musical artists. Years later, she reflected on time spent with soldiers abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they needed was a contact from home,\u201d she said. \u201cI entertained audiences from 2,000 to 6,000. And the boys would just come out of the jungle and sit there for hours waiting until we arrived and then slip back in once we\u2019d left.\u201d<\/p>\n

A plumber\u2019s daughter, Vera Margaret Welch was born on March 20, 1917, in London\u2019s blue-collar East Ham neighborhood.<\/p>\n

She took her stage name from her grandmother\u2019s maiden name. She started singing in social<\/a> clubs at age 7 and dropped out of school by 11 when she started touring Britain with a travel<\/a>ing variety show. By 17 she was a band singer, and at 21 \u2014 when the war started \u2014 she was a known performer.<\/p>\n

She married band musician Harry Lewis in 1941, and he went on to manage her career. Lynn appeared in a handful of films: \u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again\u201d (1942), playing a young dancer who discovers her singing voice; \u201cRhythm Serenade\u201d (1943), in which she plays a woman who joins the Women\u2019s Royal Navy and organizes a nursery in a munitions factory; and \u201cOne Exciting Night\u201d (1944), a comedy about a singer who is mistakenly caught up in a kidnapping.<\/p>\n

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Vera Lynn<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Lynn is best remembered for her work during the war, she had great success during the post-war years. Her \u201cAuf Wiedersehen Sweetheart\u201d in 1952 became the first record by an English artist to top the American Billboard charts, staying there for nine weeks. Lynn\u2019s career flourished in the 1950s, peaking with \u201cMy Son, My Son,\u201d a No. 1 hit in 1954.<\/p>\n

After staying away from the business for years, she had a 1970s comeback single \u201cDon\u2019t You Remember When\u201d and even covered Abba\u2019s \u201cThank you for the Music,\u201d but fans still really wanted to hear the wartime classics. Lynn was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1975.<\/p>\n

In the years that followed she continued to support veterans\u2019 causes and raise money for research on cancer and cystic fibrosis. She set up her own charity for children with cerebral palsy and was a forceful advocate for her causes. She played an important part in a 1989 campaign to win a better pension deal for World War II widows, and until 2010 was actively involved in various veterans charities.<\/p>\n

On occasion, Lynn delighted fans by taking up the microphone again. She sang outside Buckingham Palace in 1995 in a ceremony marking the golden jubilee of VE Day. In recent years, Lynn lived a quiet village life in Ditchling, about 40 miles south of London.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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