I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

I. Her father Leo Gore was a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes and swimwear. Her record producer Quincy Jones responsible for all her hits from 1963 to 1965 would later become one of the most famous producers in American music.

She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party" which Lesley Gore recorded at the age of 16. Lesley Gore (born May 2 1946) is an American singer.