Dusty Springfield was the stage name of Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien OBE, an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop, and dramatic ballads, as well as French chanson, country, and jazz.
During her peak in the 1960s, Springfield was one of the most successful British female performers on both sides of the Atlantic. Springfield’s image, which included a peroxide blonde bouffant/beehive hairstyle, heavy makeup, and evening gowns, as well as stylised, gestural performances, established her as a Swinging Sixties icon.
Who inherited Dusty Springfield money and estate?
Dusty Springfield left a testament to her devotion to her beloved cat Nicholas, as well as a strict set of rules.
Springfield left the Lana Sisters in 1960 to form The Springfields, a folk-pop trio with Tom and Reshad Feild (both ex-The Kensington Squares), whom Mike Hurst replaced in 1962. The trio chose their stage names Dusty, Tom, and Tim Springfield while rehearsing in a field in Somerset in the spring. In order to create an authentically American album, the band traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to record Folk Songs from the Hills.
