Singer Brenda Lee, 80, gets candid about growing up 'poor' after holiday hit reaches 1 billion streams Brenda Lee revealed that she 'never realized' just how poor she was growing up.
As her hit song, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, dominates radio waves over the holiday season, the Christmas legend, 80, opened up about about growing up with a single mother after her father was killed in a construction accident when she was just eight-years-old.
Brenda said her mother was a 'great cook' and insisted that she and her siblings could always rely on a neighbor if she had to work to earn money for food.
'So, we never realized that we were poor because everybody was in the same boat, so to say,' the songstress admitted.
Because back then, in the South, if you didn't have anything to eat or times were a little hard, you just went to your aunt's house, or your uncle's house.
