Pat Suzuki

Pat Suzuki born Chiyoko Suzuki(Japanese: 鈴木千代子, September 22, 1930, Cressey, California) is an American popular singer and actress, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in the show.

Career

Suzuki is a Nisei or second-generation Japanese American. She was nicknamed "Chibi", which is Japanese for 'short person' or 'small child', as the youngest sister.

A few months after the United States entered World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt forced the Suzuki family and more than 110,000 other Japanese American residents of the U.S. Pacific coast states, to evacuate their homes and enter American concentration or detention camps. The Suzukis were sent to the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado.

During the early 1950s, she attended college at San Jose State University. After moving to New York, she obtained a part in a touring production of the play, The Teahouse of the August Moon.

What I Did for Love

What I Did for Love may refer to:

What I Did for Love (A Chorus Line)

"What I Did for Love" is a song from the musical A Chorus Line. It was quickly recognized for its show-business potential outside Broadway and was picked up by popular singers to include in their performances in their club and television appearances. Both male and female singers have made it an inclusion in their recorded albums to great effect. The Daily Telegraph describes it as a "big anthem".

Synopsis within A Chorus Line

In the penultimate scene of the production, when the final eight selected dancers together onstage are asked what they will do if they are told they can no longer dance, Diana Morales takes up the responsibility to reply and sings this anthem to philosophical loss yet undefeated optimism with which finally all the dancers concur. Whatever happens, they will be free of regret, and that what they did for love with their talent, no matter how great, was only theirs "to borrow", was to be only temporary, that today is gone and at that moment are all pointed toward tomorrow.

Love Is Strange (album)

Love Is Strange is the eighteenth studio album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers.

Track listing

Chart performance

Singles

Love Is Strange is home to three singles. The title cut, a duet with Dolly Parton, debuted first and made it to number 21 in the U.S. and number 14 in Canada. The follow-up single, released in 1990, was "Lay My Body Down", which reached number 69 in the U.S. but did not chart in Canada. The final single, "What I Did For Love", written by Brent Maher and Tom Schuyler, did the opposite, charting only in Canada, peaking at number 81.