Who is Nancy Severinsen, Doc Severinsen's daughter?

Posted by Lorie Orum on Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Nancy Severinsen is a singer and also the daughter of Doc Severinsen. Nancy Severinsen’s father is a retired jazz trumpeter. For more than two decades, he was arguably the best-known trumpet player in America, appearing on television every weeknight as the leader of the Tonight Show Orchestra. The Grammy award winner has also made more than 30 albums–from big band to jazz-fusion to classical. Who is Doc Severinsen’s daughter?

Nancy Severinsen: Bio Summary

How old is Doc Severinsen’s daughter Nancy?

Nancy Severinsen was born in January 1950. As of 2023, she is 73 years old. She is the daughter of  Doc Severinsen and his ex-wife Evonne Nyman. Aside from Nancy, Doc Severinsen also has four children- They are Allen Severinsen, Robin Severinsen, Cindy Severinsen, and Judy Severinsen. Nancy is the eldest of Doc Severinsen’s children.

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Nancy Severinsen performs with his father

In 1949, the Grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter landed a job as a studio musician for NBC. For the job, he accompanied Steve Allen, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore, and Kate Smith, and was a member of the original band for Tonight Starring Steve Allen, and was the soloist playing the closing theme.

Severinsen left the show with Steve Allen in 1957. The leader of The Tonight Show Band, Skitch Henderson, asked Doc to return as a first-chair trumpeter in 1962 for what had become The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and five years later Severinsen was leading the band. After taking the lead on The Tonight Show Band, he styled the NBC Orchestra, which became perhaps the best-known big band in America.

Nancy was part of a vocal group called “Today’s Children” which often performed with him. She also appeared on the Mike Douglas Show in 1967 with her father to perform the song “If You Love Me”. Doc Severinsen and his daughter Nancy also performed together at the American Invitational horse jumping competition in Tampa in 1974.

Per her IMDB, Nancy Severinsen has been credited as a producer. She is known for The Living Edens (1997), So You Think You Can Dance (2005), and Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story (2020). Nancy Severinsen was the co-producer of her father’s Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story in 2020. The show traces the life and groundbreaking career of the unstoppable musical icon. The documentary won the best documentary feature at the Anchorage International Film Festival in 2020.

ALSO, READ; Doc Severinsen Children: Nancy, Allen, Cindy, Robin, Judy Severinsen

Where is Doc Severinsen’s daughter Nancy now?

Nancy Severinsen has worked on several hit shows and her most recent shows are “So You Think You Can Dance”, “American Idol”, Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas (2012 – 2013), and Dancing With the Stars (2013). It is unclear what she is up to now. However, Doc is a grandfather, he has eight grandchildren, including Blaire and Gray Reinhard, who write and perform roots-rock music together in various incarnations such as Curtis & Reinhard and the Blaire Reinhard Band.

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Doc Severinsen is 96 years old as of 2023. His marriage with Nancy’s mother Evonne Nyman came to an end in 1976. He moved on and got married to the secretary for The Tonight Show producer Fred de Cordova, Emily Marshall. Their marriage also ended around 2013. His current partner, Cathy Leach, is a professor emerita of trumpet at the University of Tennessee.

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