10 Facts About Lana Cantrell

Lana Eleanor Cantrell AM was born on 7 August 1943 and is an Australian-American singer and entertainment lawyer.

Lana Cantrell was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in the Grammy Awards of 1968.

Lana Cantrell's preferred style of music was pop standards, but she later made contemporary pop rock a significant part of her performances.

Lana Cantrell was a frequent guest on television shows including The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and The Mike Douglas Show.

Lana Cantrell eventually decided to make a transition out of music in the 1980s due to a decline in the number of venues where she could sing in her preferred style, the size of her audiences, and her working conditions.

Lana Cantrell decided to pursue a law career in part because a former manager had spent much of her earnings over the years and she wanted to protect other performers from similar experiences.

In 1986, Lana Cantrell enrolled at Marymount Manhattan College, where she majored in history.

In 1966, Lana Cantrell won the Amber Nightingale award for singing at a festival in Sopot, Poland.

In 2003, Lana Cantrell was named a member of the Order of Australia.

Kennedy later claimed that his romance with Lana Cantrell was purely an invention of the Sunday Observer, although Kennedy himself had confirmed publicly at the time that the relationship was real.