*Who's she?

In this shallow, celebrity-obsessed age, a lack of talent is no barrier to fame and fortune, so long as you can capture the imagination of tabloid journalists and a zombified TV audience. How ironic, then, that someone like Lucia Pamela - whose music career spans nine decades - has been all but forgotten. Voted Miss St Louis as a teenager in 1926 (or so she claims), Pamela devoted her life to showbusiness, performing across the US and Europe throughout the last century and winning a Medal of Honor from Congress for entertaining American troops during wartime.