Singer marilyn mccoo biography templates

1943-

Singer, actress

In a career spanning forty years, Marilyn McCoo has become one of the most successful female recording artists in American music.

With super group The 5th Dimension, her husband Billy Davis Jr., and as a soloist, McCoo has earned seven gold albums, five gold singles, six Grammy awards, and a star on the Holly-wood Walk of Fame. Her own fame was cemented as a singer when she helped the hippie generation "Let the Sunshine In" and showed the world that "You Don't Have to Be a Star" to find lasting love.

Began Singing as a Child

Marilyn McCoo was born on September 30, 1943, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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At the age of seven she moved with her family to Los Angeles. Her parents, Mary and Waymon McCoo, were both doctors who provided McCoo, her two sisters, and one brother with a solid middle-class upbringing. McCoo sang before she took her first step.

Dance, piano, and voice classes followed and by the time she was a teenager McCoo was s