Those of us who have been privileged to share many musical moments with Lynn Roberts, are grateful she has prevailed as one of the few stars to bridge the decades. Her dedication and success have provided us with a legacy of an endless flow of wonderful music from the big band era to the present. It takes only one short session with her to convince anyone that Lynn Roberts is their favorite singer, and one of the super songbirds of all time.

Lynn started her exciting career with Charlie Spivak at the age of 15, beating out sixty other candidates for the job. Songbird Roberts spent one year with Charlie, a year with Vincent Lopez, five years with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, ten years with Benny Goodman and four years with Harry James. She also shared the spotlight with Sammy Kay for a year and a half, on the ABC show Music from Manhattan. Lynn sang with the Pied Pipers for many years. Her career momentum led her to stellar performances throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Israel. Many famous clubs became routine stops on her busy schedule; The Cafe Rouge at the Statler Hotel in Manhattan, the Coconut Grove and the Palladium in L.A. and the renowned Paramount Theatre in New York with the famous Dorsey Brothers and Frank Sinatra. Lynn has the distinction of being the ONLY female singer to have sung with all these superstar band leaders.

In 1978 producer Michael Bennet featured her as "Marlene" the girl singer in the Broadway production of Ballroom. It was there that critic Rex Reed said "Lynn Roberts sings like an angel, and the way she handles "Dreams," the evening's best song, is a thing of pure beauty." In recent years Lynn has been deluged with requests for special appearances at jazz festivals, on major cruise lines, television specials, famous night spots, and private parties both here and abroad.

The symphony orchestras of Buffalo, Palm Beach, Corpus Christi and Albuquerque have featured Lynn in productions ranging from specials dedicated to Judy Garland, to the big band era. She will be appearing with Doc Severinsen (another Tommy Dorsey alumni) and symphony orchestras, doing a tribute to the big bands. When jazz fests in North Carolina, Maryland, Finland and other areas are not using her talents, the Songbird may find herself booked at the Rainbow Room, Tavern On The Green's Chestnut Room, or with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Alabama theatre in Myrtle Beach. Lynn has also been featured in two PBS specials that have aired frequently - due to their popularity.

She recently completed her new CD, The Men In My Life, using the spectacular big band "Reunion," made up of musicians from the "Air Men Of Note" and the "US Navy Commanders." All in all, she's still as pretty as her pictures, enjoying the best "voice" of her career, and constantly winning over a growing fan club of listeners throughout the world. A critic said of Lynn's recent performance with the Corpus Christi Symphony, "There was only one person who seemed to be having more fun than the audience, and that was LYNN."

Born Leonore Theresa Raisig in Brooklyn, New York in 1935, Lynn was raised in Queens by parents at opposite poles of support for their precocious, pre-school singing daughter. Dad - an accountant who always longed for his own show-biz career, prevailed, and Lynn began performing in Vaudeville at age eight. It was there she appeared with such greats as Abbot and Costello and Rody McDowell.

There has been considerable speculation as to the reason why Lynn Roberts has not become a household name among big band fans, while enjoying a successful career. The most probable answer is that her birth date put her on the music scene just at the end of the flood of recordings and radio shows which highlighted the era, thus leaving no showcase for inclusion of her name with those of her famous predecessors.

Once you've seen and heard Lynn, and reflect upon the fantastic period called the "Big Band Era," you will place the name LYNN ROBERTS right at the top, and consider yourself lucky to have found her at last.