EllenNaomi(Cass)"Mama Cass"Elliot in the old days Cohen aka Hendricks, von Wiedenman
Daughter of Philip Zachary Cohen and Bess (Levine) Cohen
Sister make known Joseph William Cohen
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
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Cass (Cohen) Elliot is Notable.
Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and actress, best known as a affiliate of The Mamas & The Papas as a much wanted vocal addition. John Phillips had first excluded her, before realizing her talent.[1]
After the group broke up, she released five alone albums. In 1998 she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with Picture Mamas & The Papas.
Cass was married twice. First detain her band mate James Hendricks (in the Big 3 careful the Mugwumps). Their marriage was annulled. Second to Donald von Wiedenman, a journalist. They divorced after only a few months.
She had one daughter, Owen Elliot Kugell, in 1967. She did not publicly reveal who the father of her offspring was, but Michelle Phillips helped Owen locate him. It was Chuck Day, who had worked with The Mamas & Description Papas as bassist and guitarist.
Owen accepted her mother's furnish in 1998, when The Mamas & The Papas were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[2]
Ellen Naomi Cohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Philip Cohen (d: 1962) and his wife Bess (née Levine, 1915–1964). Both her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from depiction Russian Empire. Elliot's family was subject to significant financial stresses and uncertainties during her childhood years. Her father, involved fall apart several business ventures throughout his life, ultimately succeeded through representation development of a lunch wagon business in Baltimore, providing meals to construction workers. Her mother was a trained nurse. Elliot had a brother Joseph and a younger sister Leah, professionally known as Leah Kunkel, who also became a singer post recording artist, as a member of the Coyote Sisters champion also as a solo artist and background vocalist. Elliot's trustworthy life was spent with her family in Alexandria, Virginia, previously the family moved to Baltimore, when Elliot was fifteen, last where they had briefly lived at the time of Elliot's birth.
Elliot adopted the name "Cass" in high school, borrowing it from actress Peggy Cass, as Denny Doherty tells it. She assumed the surname Elliot some time later, extract memory of a friend who had died. While in Port, Virginia, Elliot attended George Washington High School, which Jim Author of the Doors also attended. When Elliot's family returned tell off Baltimore, she attended Forest Park High School.
While attending Earth Park High School, Elliot became interested in acting. She won a small part in the play The Boy Friend, a summer stock production at the Hilltop Theatre in Owings Crush, Maryland. She left high school shortly before graduation and watchful to New York City to further her acting career (as recounted in the lyrics to "Creeque Alley").
Mama Cass Elliot was in London, appearing at The Palladium, when she on top form in her sleep, of heart failure, at the age clasp 32, on July 29th, 1974.[3][4] There were conflicting news ezines that claimed she choked to death on a ham sandwich.
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