Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien gave birth to DustinSpringfield on April 16, 1939, in West Hampstead.

An English singer by the name of Dusty Springfield. She was a significant performer of blue-eyed soul, pop, and dramatic ballads with her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice. French chanson, country music, and jazz were also in her repertoire.

She was one of the most popular British female artists on both sides of the Atlantic during her 1960s heyday.

The biggest of her many Bacharach/David covers, “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” as well as “In the Middle of Nowhere,” “Some of Your Lovin’,” “Goin’ Back,” and “I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten,” were among the singles Springfield released between 1964 and 1969 that had major success in her native Britain.

What did Dusty Springfield die from?

Dusty Springfield started experiencing sickness in January 1994 while working on her penultimate album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Tennessee. A few months later, when she arrived back in England, her doctors gave her a breast cancer diagnosis.

A month before turning 60, Dusty Springfield passed away in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on March 2, 1999.

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