‘Little Miss Dynamite’ blew up the charts when she was only 12: The story of Brenda Lee
Brenda May Tarpley, born in 1944, got her start in the late 1940s, became huge in the 1950s, and over her career–that started before she left elementary school–she topped the charts 55 times, earning the title as the most successful female recording artist of the 1960s. When Lee was only eight (according to Rolling Stone),…