She was blonde, had blue eyes and wore glasses.

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By 1960, she had signed with leading blues label, Chess Records, and had dyed her hair platinum blonde.

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"I wasn't perfect because I didn't have really blonde hair, but I was very lucky and happy that they had chosen me, " she added.

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Yet despite all that, as she stood at the brink of her 65th birthday (an age that no one seeing the petite blonde would ever guess from looking at her), Iscol began complaining to her family that she had accomplished nothing meaningful.

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