Daughter, Nikka, born 1983/4 Sister of Todd Graff. Her father is singer-arranger Jerry Graff, a featured singer with the top vocal group Pied Pipers. Her mom, Judy, who died in 1988 of cancer, was a piano teacher. Is the national spokesperson for the AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver. As a teenager, she worked as a studio singer doing background work and commercials. Attended Ithaca College in upstate New York, graduating in 1970. Returned to Broadway for two years as the first "Sandy" in "Grease". It was during Grease that she met her future husband, musical director Ben Lanzarone, who sparked the move to the West Coast. One of her and her husband's most favorite activities is to participate in the annual Cedar Rapids telethon. In the year 1999, she spent her birthday helping to raise $45 million for the Variety Children's Club.
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