Flora Yvonne Fair Strain was an American singer, best known for her 1975 recording of "It Should Have Been Me".
10 Facts About Yvonne Fair
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Flora Yvonne Coleman was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 12,1942.
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Yvonne Fair dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade to marry Leroy Fair, and gave birth to their son shortly after.
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Yvonne Fair later linked up with Chuck Jackson who took her to Motown Records.
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Yvonne Fair had a small part as a singer in the Motown produced film Lady Sings the Blues.
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Yvonne Fair's cover of "It Should Have Been Me" reached the low end of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1976.
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In 1991, Yvonne Fair appeared on a TV movie called Mr Roadrunner, starring Jools Holland and Stephen Fry, lip-synching her signature song, "It Should Have Been Me".
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Yvonne Fair died at the age of 51, from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 6,1994.
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Yvonne Fair was married to Leroy Yvonne Fair and later to Sammy Strain, who was a member of both Little Anthony and the Imperials and the O'Jays.
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Yvonne Fair was portrayed by Tika Sumpter in the 2014 James Brown biopic, Get on Up.