MAVIS RIVERS
Vocal Jazz • Samoa
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Mavis Chloe Rivers’s background is as distinctive as her singing. The daughter of Moody Charles Rivers and his wife, Louisa Stehlin, she was born in Apia, Western Samoa, on 19 May 1929, into a Mormon family that blended British, French, Swiss, Chinese and Samoan ancestry. One of 13 musically gifted children, she performed in a series of family musical evenings that soon made their home an entertainment centre. Some of these were broadcast on Western Samoa’s first (short-wave) radio station, which was built by one of her uncles. As the Second World War started in the Pacific, the family moved to Pago Pago, in American Samoa, where Mavis became a mascot to thousands of American servicemen stationed there. As she sang from camp to camp, backed by her father’s band, a special switchboard telephone hook-up enabled soldiers and marines to listen in from further afield.
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Mavis
Vocal Jazz
1961
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