Ask AP: Jo Stafford

Celebrities, Celebrity Q&A, People
on March 15, 2009

One of my favorite singers has been Jo Stafford. Can you tell me of her whereabouts and how old she is now?
—Joe Valdez, Albuquerque, N.M.

The versatile pop singer died last July of congestive heart failure in Century City, Calif., at age 90. Beloved by American servicemen during the World War II and Korean War eras, she earned the nickname “GI Jo” through her performances for soldiers overseas. Stafford sold more than 25 million records from the late 1930s into the mid-1950s and won a Grammy Award for a comedy album she made with her husband in 1960. The biggest of her more than two dozen pop hits was 1952’s “You Belong to Me,” which sold
2 million copies.