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Kathy Lester

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BiographyKathy Lester is very well-known in the Phantasm world due to her erotic performance as "The Lady in Lavender", The Tall Man's female alter ego in Phantasm (1979). She portrayed a very mysterious femme-fatale, who could be as seductive as dangerous, becoming a favorite of many fans. Fifteen years later, she returned to the Phantasm universe in Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994), making a cameo appearance as a sexy nurse during the opening sequence. Apart from her occasional film work, Ms. Lester has acted in a great variety of commercials and theatre productions throughout her career. Most recently Kat has focused her many talents to the music area, writing and recording a well-received CD. She has performed live in numerous major venues with her band, including an appearance at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.

American actress and singer (born 1934)

Musical artist

Ketty Lester (born Revoyda Frierson; August 16, 1934) is an American singer and actress known for her 1961 hit single "Love Letters", which reached the top 5 of the charts in the U.S. and the UK. She is also known for her role as Hester-Sue Terhune on the American television series Little House on the Prairie. In 2022 she was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.

Life and career

Ketty Lester was born Revoyda Frierson on August 16, 1934 in Hope, Arkansas. Her parents were farmers who would eventually have a total of 15 children. As a young child, Lester first sang in her church, and later in school choirs. She won a scholarship to study music at San Francisco State College, and in the early 1950s, she began performing under the name "Ketty Lester" in the city's Purple Onion club. She later toured Europe and South America as a singer with Cab Calloway's orchestra.

Lester (as Revoyda Frierson) appeared as a contestant on the December 26, 1957, episode of You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx. Lester sang "You Do Something to Me". The chosen category was "Mother Goose", a subject she admitted knowing nothing about; George Fenneman fed the correct answers to her, and she and her partner won $1,000.

Returning to California, she recorded her first single, "Queen for a Day", for the Everest label. She was introduced by Dorothy Shay to record producers and songwriters Ed Cobb and Lincoln Mayorga of The Four Preps and The Piltdown Men, who won her a contract with Era Records in Los Angeles. In 1961 they released her single "Love Letters" b/w "I'm a Fool to Want You".

Lester's recording of "Love Letters", which featured Lincoln Mayorga's sparse piano arrangement and Earl Palmer on drums, rose to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 early in 1962. The record also r

By Jonathan Morales

March 29, 2022

Kathy Lester ’00 (Government: International Relations) began classes at Sacramento State in 1988, at the age of 14, as part of an accelerated college entrance program that allowed her to take courses while still in high school.

For more than two years, she rode light rail from her family’s Rancho Cordova home to Sac State. By the start of her senior year at Cordova High, she had earned a decent number of college credits.

Then, Lester said, she simply got bored with high school.

“I ended up getting kicked out, so I dropped out of high school. … At the same time, because I wasn’t a high school student in good standing anymore, they had to let me go from the program at Sac State,” she said.

Lester joined the United States Army in 1991, serving two years of active duty followed by eight years as an active and then inactive reserve. She eventually returned to Sacramento, making moves that led her to become, in December 2021, the first woman police chief in Sacramento history.

One of those moves, in 1994, was joining the Sacramento Police Department as a dispatcher, followed in 1997 by a return to Sac State. She credits the University for helping prepare her for a history-making law enforcement career.

“My calling is not so much to just run the organization as status quo, but to look for new and innovative ways to do things,” she said. “The critical thinking skills that I was able to get from Sac State have helped me tremendously and have given me the ability to not only identify but to implement and measure a lot of programs I think that really impacted our community in a positive way.”

When Lester returned to Sacramento, she initially worked at a telecommunications company before becoming a police dispatcher. It paid twice what she had been making, but Lester eventually grew restless behind a dispatcher’s des