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Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien^[1] was born in West Hampstead to an Irish Catholic family^[12], and was brought up in the West London borough of Ealing. The name "Dusty" was given to her when she was a child, as she had been a tomboy in her early years. Dusty's mother told her a lot about movies. Her tax consultant father^[1] used to tap out rhythms on the back of her hand, encouraging the young Dusty to guess the musical piece. Dusty was brought up listening to a wide range of music, Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, among others. She was a fan of American Jazz and the music of Peggy Lee, with a desire to sound like her. At age 11, she went into a local record shop in Ealing and made her first record, the Judy Garland Irving Berlin song "When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam".^[27]

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