1. Monica Lewis was born in Chicago on May 5,1922, the youngest of three children.
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Monica Lewis's father, Leon, was a pianist, musical director for CBS, and composer while her mother, Jessica, was a singer with the Chicago Opera Company, with Lewis studying voice with her mother.
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When Monica Lewis was 11, she and her family moved to New York City due to The Great Depression.
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Monica Lewis began singing on radio after a successful audition with WMCA in New York City led to her own program.
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Monica Lewis went on to co-star on The Chesterfield Supper Club on radio.
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Monica Lewis won a part as a singing cigarette girl in the Broadway show Johnny 2X4.
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At an audition in Times Square with hundreds of women participating, Monica Lewis earned the part as a singer and began to sing on Hotel Astor's roof with Goodman's orchestra.
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Monica Lewis recorded for Signature Records, MGM Records, Decca Records, Capitol Records, and Verve Records.
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In 1947, Monica Lewis began to provide the singing voice for "Miss Chiquita Banana", a cartoon television commercial character.
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Monica Lewis resumed her singing career in the 1980's and 1990s, performing at popular clubs such as the Vine St Bar and Grill and The Hollywood Roosevelt Cinegrill in Los Angeles and Danny's Skylight Room in New York City.
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Monica Lewis spoke about her career 10 days before her death to The New Yorker in an article published in the September 7,2015 edition.
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Monica Lewis moved to Beverly Hills, California in the 1950s.
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Monica Lewis's sister Barbara was a pianist and her brother Marlo was co-producer of The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Monica Lewis died of natural causes at the age of 93 on June 12,2015 at her home in Woodland Hills, California.