Abbe Lane, Sultry Singer With a Latin Flair, Dies at 94

She was a Broadway dancer before becoming Xavier Cugat’s star vocalist and later building a solo career.

Abbe Lane, a nightclub singer, recording artist and actor whose popularity in the 1960s and ’70s made her a familiar presence on late night talk shows and variety series, died April 25 of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was 93. Her death was reported by her son Steven Leff to Deadline’s sister publication The…