Katy Kirby, originally from Spicewood, Texas, performs at the Hinterland Music Festival in St. Charles, Iowa. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in ...

Kathy Kirby was an English singer, born on October 20, 1938 in Ilford, Surrey as Kathleen O'Rourke. Kathy Kirby was one of the most famous faces in British showbiz in the late 1950s/ early 1960s ...