- Timi Trivia: She was born Rosemarie Timotea Auro on August,
4, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, later taking the stage name Timi Yuro. - Timi Trivia: She was exposed to African-American culture through her friendship with black neighbors in her Chicago neighborhood, who played records by Dinah Washington.
- Timi Trivia: In 1952, the family moved to Los Angeles. There she studied with Lilian Goodman, the voice-coach for such celebrities as Frankie Laine and Kirk Douglas. Amazed by her vocal power, Goodman gave Timi free lessons.
- Timi Trivia: By age 14, she was singing in Los Angeles nightclubs to the displeasure of her mother, Edith, who once interrupted her performance, declaring: "This is your last song, young lady!"
- Timi Trivia: Her parents owned a largely unsuccessful restaurant in Los Angeles. But when the family (at her suggestion) converted it to a music venu, its prospects changed.....
- ... Even Elvis Presley reportedly went to eat pizza at Alvoturno's.
- Timi Trivia: Given bland, inappropriate material at her label, Liberty Records, she forced her way into a board meeting where she sang a Roy Hamilton R&B hit, Hurt,...
- ... to Liberty`s president, Al Bennett. Impressed, he had her recorded by
Clyde Otis, Dinah Washington`s producer. Hurt became her highest charting single (#4 in 1961). - Timi Trivia: As a struggling artist during the 60s, Willie Nelson would occasionally eat free at the Yuro family restaurant.
- .... Nelson repaid old favors, financing and appearing on her final album, Today.
- Timi Trivia: Her Italian-American family`s name may have been spelled "Aurro". By the time of her birth, the family used the spelling Yuro.
- Timi Trivia: She opened for Frank Sinatra on his 1962 tour of Australia, and received a 1962 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist of 1961 (losing to Peter Nero).
- Timi Trivia: She showed an emotional but elegant vocal style that owed a debt to Dinah Washington and other black jazz singers. Many listeners in the early 1960s thought Yuro was black.
- Timi Trivia: She recorded The Love Of A Boy, arranged and co-written by Burt Bacharach. But she refused to sing a follow-up, What The World Needs Now, in the way Bacharach wanted...
- ... Later, the song became a hit for both Dionne Warwick and Jackie DeShannon.
- Timi Trivia: By 1964 she had moved to Mercury Records, but her first record for the label, "You Can Have Him", arranged by Jack Nitzsche, only barely charted and was her last hit.
- Timi Trivia: Her last recording was the vinyl album Today, which was released in 1982 by Ariola and produced by her old friend and collaborator Willie Nelson...
- ... In 1990, the disc was reissued as a CD, remastered and remixed by Yuro herself on her own label Timi and titled Timi Yuro Sings Willie Nelson.
- Timi Trivia: She was diagnosed with throat cancer in the 1990s, and died at the age of 63 in 2004.
