Sugar Pie Desanto was a Filipino-American rhythm and blues singer, her career flourished during the 1950s and 1960s. Desanto was born 'Peylia Marsema Balinton' was born on October 16, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York to a Filipino father and black mother who as a concert pianist. Desanto grew up in San Francisco, CA and stood […]

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