Lesley Sue Goldstein, known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 she started making music . She was born may 2nd 1946 in Brooklyn New York United States to Ronny Gore and Leo Goldstein. She has a brother Michael Gore. Her Pronouns where she/her and she was a lesbian. Her height was 1.57 m. Lois Sasson was Lesley Gore's partner for 33 years they separated due to Lesley Gore's death it was a secret until 2003. Her years active was 1963–2014 . Her genre was pop Gore later worked as an actress and television personality. She composed songs with her brother, Michael Gore, for the 1980 film Fame, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She hosted several editions of the LGBT-oriented public television show, In the Life, on American TV in the 2000s.
Gore was born Lesley Sue Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, into a middle-class Jewish family. The daughter of Leo Goldstein and Ronny Gore, her father was the owner of Peter Pan, a children's swimwear and underwear manufacturer, and later became a leading brand licensing agent in the apparel industry. She was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, and attended the Dwight School for Girls in nearby Englewood. She also attended Sarah Lawrence College. Beginning in 2003, Gore hosted several editions of the PBS television series In the Life, which focused on LGBTQ+ issues. In a 2005 interview with After Ellen, she stated she was a lesbian and had been in a relationship with luxury jewelry designer Lois Sasson since 1982. She had known about her attraction to women from the time she was 20 and stated that although the music business was "totally homophobic", she never felt she had to pretend she was straight. "I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do," she said. "I didn't avoid anything, I didn't put it in anybody's face"
Gore had been working on a memoir and a Broadway show based on her life when she died of lung cancer on February 16, 2015, at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City, at the age of 68. At the time of her death, Gore and Sasson had been together for 33 years. They planned to be married in the summer of 2015 but Gore died, Her New York Times obituary stated, "with songs like 'It’s My Party,' 'Judy’s Turn to Cry', and the indelibly defiant 1964 single 'You Don’t Own Me' all recorded before she was 18 Gore made herself the voice of teenaged girls aggrieved by fickle boyfriends, moving quickly from tearful self-pity to fierce self-assertion." In 1964, "It's My Party" was nominated for a Grammy Award for rock-and-roll recording. National Public Radio named Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts, Gore's second album, as forebearer of one of the top 150 albums recorded by women. The album missed the official list (1964–present) because it was released in 1963. "She is a forebearer for her assertion of feminine power in pop, and her validation of a female perspective." Her career in jewelry design began to grow in the 1970s. Her work was featured in New York magazine. Sasson created high-end jewelry, sometimes designed in partnership with Geoffrey Thomas, were sold in stores such as Bergdorf Goodman. She also had some of her work on display in art galleries. By 2015 Sasson became well known for her work with precious stones, encrusted cufflinks, and tuxedo button covers. On Valentine's Day that year a set of men's jewelry called "The Ambassador Set" went on sale for $16,000.
Her albums:
I'll Cry If I Want To (1963)
Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts (1963)
Boys, Boys, Boys (1964)
Girl Talk (1964)
My Town, My Guy & Me (1965)
Lesley Gore Sings All About Love (1966)
Off and Running (1967, canceled)
California Nights (1967)
Magic Colors (1967, canceled)
Someplace Else Now (1972)
Love Me By Name (1975)
The Canvas Can Do Miracles (1982)
Ever Since (2005)
Magic Colors: The Lost Album (2011)
