Palm Springs Walk of the Stars to Honor Peggy Lee 

The Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce is set to pay tribute to entertainer and songwriter Peggy Lee with the 467th star on the Palm Springs Walk of the Stars. The star will be unveiled at 100 S. Palm Canyon Dr. in Downtown Palm Springs on Friday, March 8^th, at 2:00 p.m The Star Dedication Ceremony is open to the public.

The star dedication ceremony will feature guest speakers, including Michael Feinstein, Wink Martindale, Scott Nevins, and Peggy Lee’s granddaughter and President of Peggy Lee Associates, Holly Foster Wells, with a special performance by the Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus.

In 1941, at the beginning of her seven-decade career, she performed at The Doll House in Palm Springs, where she developed what became her signature singing style – “softly, with feeling” – to quiet a raucous crowd. Palm Springs Life Magazine noted that performance: “She sang low and sultry, barely above a whisper. The yelling in the nightclub subsided, conversations ceased, patrons who hadn’t even noticed Peggy Lee take the stage were craning their necks, silent as judges, trying to hear every note.”

On that same night, she caught the attention of the co-owner of Chicago’s East and West Ambassador Hotels, Frank Bering, who arranged for her to travel to Chicago, where she was discovered by band leader Benny Goodman – a moment that led her to international stardom, from a moment that began in Palm Springs.

“I am so thrilled that my grandmother will forever have a place in Palm Springs on their Walk of the Stars. Palm Springs held a special place in her heart. It was the city that helped put her career on the map, and it was also the place she came to rest, recover, and celebrate. She would be so touched by this honor, as I am,” said Holly Foster Wells.