After years of honing her craft and simultaneously working her way through college, she graduated in 2017 from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology (world music).

Source: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/12/grammy-nominated-singer-lupita-infante-to-perform-in-eastern-idaho/

In 1964 Kennedy was earning £2000 a year for South Of The Border alone as it was recorded many times from Frank Sinatra to Herb Alpert.

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It was released in 1970, and at the time, singers around the world, including Andy Williams and Herb Alpert, recorded covers of it.

Source: https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/355768/happily-ever-after/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happily-ever-after