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Marideth Ann (Gentry) Sisco is an American singer and journalist. ==Early life== Sisco was born June 15, 1943 at home in Butterfield, Missouri to Marguerite Elenor Gentry Sisco and Paul Holtz Sisco. Marguerite worked in a cafe; he was a farmer/milk hauler who joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor and who served on a destroyer as fireman 1st class and anti-aircraft gunner. He came home without leave when Marideth was born and served time in the brig until he cleared his record by volunteering for a suicide mission in the Pacific, for which he received, along with the rest of the crew, a presidential citation. When Marideth was a bit over six months old, Marguerite joined Paul in California and worked in a Crown Zellerbach paper mill to be near him while he was incarcerated, and Marideth stayed in Missouri with her two aunts, Neva and Juanita, and her maternal grandmother, Georgia Gentry. The sisters operated a grocery store, and Marideth slept in a crib next to the coal-burning stove and charmed the customers. It is told that the two sisters kissed her cheeks as they passed so many times that the grandmother made them stop, because she was weary of cleaning off the lipstick. After that, they kissed the soles of her feet, to which she attributes a large part of her character and confidence today. While she was with the family, her great uncle, Tom Ferguson, taught her, between ages two and three, to memorize the words to songs and to sing them. She has been singing ever since. After the war, Paul took an electronics course by mail, purchased an under-the-counter union card and became an journeyman electrician. After a trial run at the Hanford Nuclear facility, the family traveled from job to job, with Marideth attending schools in Butterfield, Aurora and Springfield, Missouri; Wichita, Kansas; North Richland, Washington; Kalispell, Montana; and San Leandro and Angel's Camp, California. Everywhere they went, they sang - the popular songs, the torch songs, the old and very old songs. Marideth learned them all. To their great joy and surprise, one day in the car Marideth, after singing along for some years, suddenly burst forth with the second harmony part. When she reached the Eighth grade, Marideth became weary of life on the road and always making new friends only to leave them behind. She left her parents and went to live with her grandmother back in Butterfield. She attended Butterfield school that year then went to the consolidated school in Cassville, Missouri, graduating in 1961. She attended one year at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri, then transferred to Southwest Missouri State College (Now Missouri State University) where she continued her studies in music. In the spring of her third year, instructors at SMS informed her she could not major in performance and/or orchestration as she was a woman and would not be able to find a job in those fields. They advised she change her major to music education. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marideth Sisco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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