Anita Kerr was a vocalist, music arranger, and producer. Anita Kerr was married to Alex Grob.
Anita Kerr and Alex Grob, lived in Switzerland where they opened the renowned Mountain Recording Studio in Montreux. The rock band Queen took ownership and recorded several albums there.
Anita Kerr was instrumental in creating the smoother, strings-and-harmonies washed-out sound.
Anita Kerr died on October 10, 2022, at the age of 94, in Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland. Kerr’s imprint on the Nashville scene was so strong that it’s been reported that her voice appeared on one-quarter of all country singles recorded there at one point.
She won three Grammy Awards with the group in just two years, for 1965 We Dig Mancini LP, the same year’s Southland Favorites album by gospel singer George Beverly Shea, to which the Singers contributed, and the 1966 single “A Man and a Woman.”