Myra Gale Lewis Williams is an American author, best known for her controversial marriage at the age of 13 to rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis, who was her first cousin once removed and was 22 at the time.
10 Facts About Myra Lewis Williams
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Myra Lewis Williams sought out his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, who was an unknown musician at the time.
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Brown played electric bass, and Lewis played piano and sang.
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On December 12,1957, at the age of 13, Myra Brown married Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, in Hernando, Mississippi.
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When Myra Lewis Williams arrived in London for a 37-date tour in May 1958, Brown revealed to a reporter at the airport that she was his wife.
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Myra Lewis Williams asserted that Brown was 15 years old and was his wife of two months.
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The scandal over their marriage was a significant set back to Myra Lewis Williams' promising rock and roll career, though his 1986 naming to the first group of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members recognized Myra Lewis Williams' early influence on the genre.
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The producers did not want Brown or Myra Lewis Williams involved with the film, but she visited the Memphis set anyway.
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Myra Lewis Williams had wanted to tell the story of a woman surviving difficult circumstances and inspire women to understand their own strengths, so she published her memoir, The Spark That Survived, in 2016.
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Myra Lewis Williams married her third husband, Richard Williams, in 1984.