Vera Lynn

**Dame Vera Margaret Lynn** (née Welch; 20 Maris 1917 - 18 Yuni 2020) ta kasance mawaƙiya ce ta Ingila kuma mai nishadantarwa wacce rikodin kiɗa da wasan kwaikwayon ta shahara sosai a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II . An san ta da girmamawa a matsayin "Forces' Sweetheart", bayan da ta ba da kide-kide na waje ga dakarun a Misira, Indiya, da Burma a lokacin yakin a matsayin wani ɓangare na Ƙungiyar Ayyuka ta Kasa. The  ya rubuta game da Lynn, "Muryarta mai tabbatarwa da kuma kula da rediyo ya sanya ta ƙaunatacciyar sojojin a Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu - haɗin da ta haɓaka tare da ci gaba da jajircewarta ga tsofaffi da ƙwaƙwalwar ajiyar yaƙin. "  Waƙoƙin da suka fi dacewa da ita sun haɗa da "Za Mu sake haduwa", " (Za a sami Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" da "A Night Sangle in Berkeley Square".

Ta ci gaba da shahara bayan yaƙin, ta bayyana a rediyo da talabijin a Ƙasar Ingila da Amurka kuma ta yi rikodin irin waɗannan abubuwan da suka faru kamar "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart" da kuma lambar farko ta Burtaniya "Ɗana, Ɗana". A shekara ta 2009, tana da shekaru 92, ta zama mafi tsufa mai zane-zane da ya fi tsufa a kan UK Albums Chart tare da kundin tarin We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn .  A cikin 2017, Decca Records ta fitar da *Vera Lynn 100*, tarin matasa masu fasaha da ke duet tare da rikodin tarihin Lynn. An fitar da ita don tunawa da cika shekaru dari, ta kasance No. 3 da aka buga, wanda ya sa ta zama mai wasan kwaikwayo na farko da ya sami kundi na Top 10 a cikin sigogi. A lokacin mutuwarta a shekarar 2020, ta kasance mai aiki a masana'antar kiɗa na tsawon shekaru 96.

Lynn ta ba da lokaci da kuzari sosai ga aikin sadaka da ke da alaƙa da tsoffin sojoji, yara masu nakasa, da ciwon nono. Tsoffin mayakan yakin duniya na biyu sun riƙe ta cikin ƙauna mai girma, kuma a cikin 2000 an kira ta Briton wanda ya fi dacewa da ruhun karni na 20. 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Vera Margaret Welch a East Ham, Essex, yanzu wani ɓangare na London Borough of Newham, a ranar 20 ga Maris 1917.  Ita 'yar wani mai famfo ce,   Bertram Samuel Welch, (1883-1955) da matarsa kuma mai yin tufafi, Anne "Annie", née Martin (1889-1975), wanda ya yi aure a 1913.  A cikin 1919, lokacin da Lynn ke da shekaru biyu, ta yi rashin lafiya da cututtukan diphtheritic kuma kusan ta mutu. An tura ta zuwa sashin keɓewa kuma an sallame ta bayan watanni uku a can. A sakamakon kwantar da ita a asibiti, mahaifiyarta ta kare ta sosai kuma ba ta bari ta ziyarci abokai ko wasa a kan titi na dogon lokaci ba. Lynn ta tuna cewa mahaifiyarta ba ta da tsauri ga ɗan'uwanta Roger kamar yadda take tare da ita.

## Ayyuka
Ta fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a bainar jama'a tana da shekaru bakwai kuma ta karɓi sunan budurwar mahaifiyarta Margaret "Lynn" a matsayin sunanta na mataki lokacin da take da shekaru goma sha ɗaya.[1] Lokacin da take da shekaru 11, ta shiga ƙungiyar matasa da ake kira Madame Harris's Kracker Kabaret Kids . A farkon shekara ta 1933 Howard Baker ne ya gan ta, wanda ya gayyace ta ta shiga ƙungiyarsa. Hakazalika, Billy Cotton ya ɗauke ta kuma ta yi tafiya tare da ƙungiyarsa a 1934 kafin ta koma Baker.[2]

Tare da Baker ne ta yi rikodin ta na farko a ranar 17 ga Fabrairu 1935, "Gida ce". An fara watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo na farko, tare da Joe Loss Orchestra, a ranar 21 ga watan Agusta 1935.  A wannan lokacin ta bayyana a cikin rikodin da ƙungiyar rawa suka fitar ciki har da na Loss da na Charlie Kunz .  A cikin 1936, an saki rikodin sa na farko a kan lakabin Crown, "Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire". Wannan lakabin ya shagaltar da Decca Records a cikin 1938.  Ta tallafa wa kanta ta hanyar aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar gudanarwa ga shugaban kamfanin gudanar da sufuri a East End na London. Bayan ɗan gajeren lokaci tare da Loss ta zauna tare da Kunz na shekara guda ko haka a lokacin da ta rubuta wasu waƙoƙi masu yawa. Ta shiga ƙungiyar Ambrose a 1937  kuma ta kasance tare da shi har zuwa 1940, lokacin da ta tafi solo.