The Andrews Sisters the group was formed, and 12 when they won first prize at a talent contest at the local Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, where LaVerne played piano accompaniment for the silent film showings in exchange for free dancing lessons for herself and her sisters. Following the collapse of their father's Minneapolis restaurant, the sisters went on the road to support the family. They started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the Boswell Sisters, who were popular in the 1930s. After singing with various dance bands and touring in vaudeville with the likes of Leon Belasco (and his
Keller Sisters and Lynch later married Ben Bernie's star saxophonist Jack Pettis). Frank Lynch had a very high-pitched voice for a man, and when singing with his sisters the siblings could easily be taken for an all-female trio. Also Frank's solo recordings have a tendency to sound more like a woman than a man. Keller Sisters and Lynch The Keller Sisters and Lynch were a United States pop music group of singers of the 1920s and 1930s. The group consisted of Annie Catherine "Nan" Keller (1900-75), Kathryne Ann "Taddy" Keller (1909-62), and Frank Lynch (1902-92). They were all siblings born with the family name