Lena Zavaroni died on 1 October 1999, at the age of 35.

Key details

  • Date of death: 1 October 1999.
  • Place of death: Cardiff, Wales, UK.
  • Age at death: 35 years old, having been born on 4 November 1963.
  • Reported cause: Bronchial pneumonia following surgery for severe depression.

Brief context

  • Lena Zavaroni was a Scottish singer who became famous as a child in the 1970s, notably after success on the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks and with the album Ma! (He’s Making Eyes at Me).
  • From her early teens she struggled with anorexia nervosa and later clinical depression, health problems that preceded the pneumonia that led to her death in 1999.

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