Liza Minnelli is a showbiz LEGEND. 🌟
, and as a teenager, she began in theater productions. At 18, the budding star joined her mother for a concert at the London Palladium, which was later released as an album.
“One of the biggest misconceptions about my mama is that she didn’t provide me with a happy childhood,” Liza told in October 2019. “There were highs and lows for sure, but I can say I was very happy. If people choose to believe that or not, it’s up to them, but I know I was happy.”actress released her first solo album in 1964 and earned her first Tony Award nomination one year later for her performance ine. As her career took off, however, Liza had to cope with the death of her mother, who died of a drug overdose in 1969 at age 47.
While Garland’s death shocked her fans and the entertainment world at large, Liza later said that her mother’s passing brought them closer in some ways. “What it did was it took away space, it took away miles,” the Los Angeles native toldin 1984. ”[While I was growing up], I’d have to go through long-distance operators and all that to get through to where she was on a boat or someplace — just to call to tell her something funny that I’d read.
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